1964. The Vietnam War has begun to escalate, its new style of battle
demanding new weapons and tactics and men who can use them.
Overnight, it seems, the U. S. Army must scramble to create its
first-ever Air Assault Division, a force critical to its chances of
success, but the obstacles facing it are staggering--untrained men,
mysteriously failing aircraft, vicious inter-service rivalries.
As the hostilities increase, the warriors and the women who love them
are swept into the struggle, their personal and professional lives
twisting and intertwining as they race against time--and the fortunes of
war...