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The Long Road Home

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The newly arrived men of the 1st Cavalry Division must launch a desperate rescue mission when one of their platoons is ambushed by thousands of enemy insurgents in the Sadr City slum of Baghdad. As the news breaks stateside, the lives of the soldiers' families back in Fort Hood are thrown into chaos and uncertainty.

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