Ross prepares for deployment and joins up with 1 Royal Anglian as they train during a cold British winter on Salisbury Plain. They’re training for what they will face in Afghanistan which includes convoy protection.

Ross Kemp in Afghanistan

Episode two sees Ross arrive at Camp Bastion, he’s given a medical briefing then straight out on an offensive operation in the ‘green zone’, a thin strip of agricultural land that lines the banks of the Helmand.

Episode three focuses on the life of the soldier – what’s it like to live on Britain’s front line at the Now Zad base. It’s at Now Zad that the Royal Anglians suffered their first casualty, Private Chris Gray.

While Ross is back in the UK three soldiers from B Company are killed in a tragic blue-on-blue accident. On the 23rd August Privates Aaron James McClure.

Pluto

In the summer of 2007 Ross joins his father's old regiment, 1 Royal Anglian and, for the first time, heads to Afghanistan. Ross is immediately embedded with frontline troops where for weeks at a time he lives a soldier's life as they fight a fanatical

Episode 2

Full Episodes

Season 1, 4 episodes