Steel Walls and Dirt Drops
, by Black, Alan- ISBN: 9781426914836 | 1426914830
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/2/2009
The 1392nd Allied Protective Expeditionary Services was supposed to be an armored infantry fighting unit. But their last commander quit on the job. Even the captain of the space forces transport they had been assigned to was no help at all. The war with the alien Binders was heating up. Combat was on the horizon and even the veterans doubted that they would be ready for what was coming. Now the 1392nd was getting a new commander, Hamisha Ann McPherson, and this was her first command of anything larger than a squad. She was a larger-than-life combat veteran and a war hero, but even she doubted that she could bring this group of slackers, petty criminals, and losers into an effective fighting unit in the short time that she had left to get them ready for combat. All she could do was crack a few heads, kick some backsides, and see what happened. If she was successful then they might live through the next battle. If not...