With unprecedented access and filmed over 14 months, The Homefront creates a series of intimate portraits — following families through the difficulties of deployment, the joys of homecoming and the challenges of veterans reintegrating as a family after many months apart.
General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recalls in his interview for The Homefront a time when the military’s view on families was summed up by the phrase, “if the Army wanted you to have a family, they would have issued you one.” Now, he says, “the strength of the armed forces of the United States is as much about its families as it is about its combat capability.”
In The Homefront, viewers will meet a cross-section of America’s military community: soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen, some in the active duty force, and some in the National Guard and Reserve. Representing many ranks, and drawn from across the country, these families illustrate what it means to serve.
From an Army Staff Sergeant torn between family and military duty, to a Marine Gunnery Sergeant struggling to reconnect with his wife and children after a long deployment, to a Navy Command Master Chief whose husband has given up his own career to raise their children, The Homefront reveals that in the military, family life is never routine.
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