Colonel Terry Childers is a 30-year Marine veteran: A decorated representative with combat experience inside Vietnam, Beirut and Desert Storm. But currently, the nation he served so well has placed him on trial on behalf of a rescue mission that went terribly incorrect. For his attorney, he has chosen Marine Colonel Hayes Hodges, a comrade-in-arms who owes his life to Childers.
Hodges is not the greatest lawyer within the service, but Childers trusts him being a brother Marine who knows what it’s like to chance death under fire. Bound by duty and friendship, Hodges reluctantly takes the assignment, even while he begins to doubt the guy who saved his life inside Vietnam three decades previously.
Samuel L Jackson is being court-martialed on three charges.
He is found GUILTY on Breach of Peace.
He is found not guilty on Conduct Unbecoming an Officer.
He is found not guilty of Murder.
He retires honorably from the Marine Corps.
The National Security Advisor that burnt the videocassette tape that may perhaps have proved him not guilty, resigns.