“If I knew it would happen to me, I would still go on a mission” - how the life of a 29-year-old corporal who lost a limb in an explosion in Afghanistan changed

Three-time champion of Georgia in fencing, three-time vice-champion in arm wrestling, current European champion, two-time Guinness record holder in powerlifting- this is a list of achievements of Temur Dadiani. He has achieved all the victories after the 2011 mine explosion. In Afghanistan, Temur exploded on an improvised explosive device and lost both lower limbs.

- The August 2008 war influenced me greatly, I was a little boy and I eagerly wanted to serve my country. I have always liked military life, but I went to university to study business administration. Soon I realized that this was not my business and submitted the documents to the Krtsanisi contract office. There I realized that I was in a family, I felt comfortable. I signed a contract and our sub-unit moved to Helmand, Afghanistan in 2011. The base building was not completed, at the same time we were fighting building the base. This mission was a challenge for me, our country at that time was conducting complex operations in Afghanistan.

I was too young to be confined to a wheelchair, but I knew that I could not continue to live the way I used to, that I could not achieve what I wanted to achieve in the army.

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