I can't recommend this show enough. It's quite potentially the most riveting (in ways that are sometimes lighthearted, and ways that are sometimes heartbreaking) "reality" television shows ever produced. (In fact, I almost hesitate to refer to it as a "reality show" because it does so much more than the shows typically populating the genre of "reality." This is Survivor for REAL.)
The series follows a US Navy-trained EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) team on their five-month tour in Afghanistan.
Throughout its ten episodes, we see the mundane (soldiers setting up their bunks, playing soccer, getting in snowball fights, Jeremy Stein losing the robot challenge), the average (hours of quiet and rote missions, interpersonal conflicts, military service members ingratiating themselves with the general population, Chase Holzhauer growing up), and the extraordinary (Ricky Thibeault saving the lives of eight wounded servicemen while RPGs and bullets fly over his head, unexpected explosions and the resultant tensions amongst the crew, and the general feeling of despair--but at the same time a necessarily eternal optimism--some of the team expresses).
This series is as close (thankfully) as I'll ever get to Afghanistan, but I am grateful to have seen the episodes, as they serve to put some of the more insignificant details in my life in perspective. (Watching shoppers complain about Black Friday deals never seemed so unimportant as it did the day after I watched an episode of Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan). Do yourself a favor and watch this gripping tale. You'll appreciate learning something about the relentlessness and capacity of the human will.