Arriving home alive from any war is a soldier’s dream come true. Decorated hero, SSgt. Brandon King(Phillippe) finally gets to realize that dream. After arriving home to Texas from his tour in Iraq, he gets to try to return to a normal life. Obviously, not everyone deals with the transition home as easily as Brandon does. Some suffer from PTSD worse than others. Some drink heavily to try to forget; others can’t handle being home and imagine themselves back in the desert.
Brandon’s transition home is a slow one, as it is for everyone, until he’s informed he’s been stop-lossed; he’s being redeployed. (more…)