When thousands of United States troops from Georgia’s Fort Stewart and Fort Benning invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003, one was an Army specialist with a camcorder, Robert Ayres.

Ayres was an infantryman deployed at a makeshift camp in the Kuwaiti desert a few weeks earlier called Camp Pennsylvania.

As Army troops ramped up to cross the nearby Iraqi border, he trained his camcorder on some of his comrades-in-arms.

Read more about Aryres mission: https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/new-video-georgia-soldiers-shows-iraq-invasion-20-years-ago/85-dee26009-83ea-4cb9-87c3-e7f282612745

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