Also means if Russia decides to attack at night, Lithuania is shit out of luck 😄

Just to put some context to this: the German contingent fighting for Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan was about that same size

So for our military that is a really big deployment

I guess if you trace her German-American father’s heritage, you’d find their family name likely came from the German “Erhardt” or something like that… So in that case yes, the original pronunciation of the family name (and indeed the way German people say her name today) it would actually sound like “Air heart”