The Long Road Home recounts the eight-hour battle in Sadr City on April 4, 2004, following the ambush of a newly-arrived American platoon. The series is told in real-time through the perspectives of untested soldiers in their first combat experience, their families anxiously waiting for news back home, and ordinary Iraqis caught in the midst of war.
Task Force Lancer begins its first day on patrol, but their routine sanitatio...