The Cold War is ending while the Middle East is heating up. A young Marine Corps Officer, Josh Cavanaugh, struggles to survive the most elite flight school in the world, explore friendship, find love, and make sense of the new world order. Shortly before Desert Storm, without UN authorization, he accepts a dangerous secret mission, Operation Wet Campus, to destroy a weapon system that was illegally sold to Iraq by a rogue American defense contractor. The mission goes exactly as planned, then horribly wrong, throwing the young patriot and his American dream into chaos.