Staff sergeant Robert Miltenberger was traumatized on earlier deployment in Bosnia by a desperate mother who chose to walk with her dead baby into a mine field, believing his similar death in Iraq will be heralded by crows as he saw the first time. Responding in Sadr City to such flight, to his baffled mates' astonishment, spares his armored car falling into a trap, but also sees them cut-off from their patrol, further complicating colonel Volesky's dilemma whether to split up rescue further. Cornered men camp in an occupied house, cuffing the inhabitants and even translator Jassim Al-Lani, must deal with mounting anxiety, temporarily alleviated by Young's Great war poetry, one even is disabled by shell-shock under fire which renders the medic sadly busy, and a sentinel is traumatically forced to shoot a kid who playfully handles a found machine gun pointed at the soldier, after his death the father and grandfather who can't control their grief. On the Texan home front, mounting ... Written by KGF Vissers
All Episodes - S01
EPS01
After Saddam's defeat, rookies Allied troops fear a 'boring' job compared to the Afghan front, but veterans realize dangers still lurk all around. 1st Cavalry Lt. Shane A ...
EPS03
Lieutenant Shane Aguero's platoon is part of 'routine' patrols in Baghdad's unruly Shiite sector Sadr City, but gets cut off and isolated, surrounded by hostile militia. ...
EPS04
Staff sergeant Robert Miltenberger was traumatized on earlier deployment in Bosnia by a desperate mother who chose to walk with her dead baby into a mine field, believing ...
EPS06
After the funeral of their grandfather, a Korean war hero, Texan rowdy brothers Tomas and Nathan 'Nate' Young signed up, Tommy first scoring and wedding former hippie cla ...
EPS07
Sergeant Eric Bourquin had a lousy youth in a poor, dysfunctional Texas small town family, feeling close and relatively safe only with kid brother Danny, bullied at schoo ...
EPS08
(Garza) With ammo running out after every regular location attempt failed, the armored platoon passes lieutenant Shane Aguero's beleaguered men, but his desperately-heroi ...