Once A soldier in the United States military was recently reunited with the puppy that he rescued while serving his country overseas.

U.S. Army Spc. Tyler Mosley was deployed to Syria to fight ISIL as part of the 7th Special Forces Group. While overseas, he was stationed in an Army compound when an explosive ordnance disposal technician with a small puppy that had been found next to her dead sibling.

The puppy immediately won over the soldiers at the base with her rambunctious energy, but there was one serviceman that she was particularly drawn to.

“She didn’t know me, and she just came up to me and was licking me,” Mosley told the Northwest Florida Daily News. “I fell in love with her.”

Mosley knew right away that war-torn Syria was not a good place for a puppy to live.

“I don’t think she would have lived,” he said. “You see all the dogs out there, and they’re skinny, and they get distemper or they get sick. Her having no one else, no other dog or anything, I don’t think she would have made it.”

The captain of the base told the soldiers that if no one volunteered to take care of the puppy, they would get rid of her the next day. Mosley stepped up immediately and said he’d care for the puppy, who he named Daisy because t him she was “something beautiful out of a bad place.”

Mosley fed Daisy Vienna sausages and spam, and he even asked his family to send dog food for her. The two of them bonded so well that Daisy would cry when Mosley had to leave on missions.

This is why it was devastating for Mosley when he learned that he could not take Daisy back home from Syria with him. Once he was home, he worked with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals international to help him adopt Daisy and get her to the U.S.

”She was in a bad place,” Mosley explained. “I just wanted her to be here so I could give her the love, the life that she wouldn’t have had there.”

In the video below, you’ll see Mosley and Daisy finally be reunited after three months and millions of miles of ocean between them. You might want to have some tissues handy before you watch this one!