American Soldier

CMT chronicles a small-town National Guard battalion as they are called to serve a tour of duty in Iraq, following a group of four weekend warriors who are unexpectedly called to make the ultimate sacrifice for God and country. It's a band of brothers for our times -- an intimate, revealing, real-time look at a group of tightly knit soldiers preparing, deploying and finally fighting through the triumph and torment of war-torn Iraq.

The show will also follow the lives of their families, friends and co-workers back home in small town Georgia, as they grasp to cope with the uncertainty of their soldiers' fates and the day-to-day difficulties of living without their fathers, husbands and friends.