Unit 416 — J. Leon Pridgen

An actor and a filmmaker deliver a gripping military thriller that gives five tough-as-nails men and one hard-assed sergeant a chance to change their lives.

Born and raised in America's hardest streets, five men are faced with the ultimate choice: continue their lives of crime and incarceration or serve their country and join the Army. Master Sergeant Keeble is faced with no good choice: be the leader of a new section called Unit 416 or take him and his surgically-repaired leg out of the game for good. At first, all Keeble has to work with is a ragtag group of men with no regard for the rules and a huge chip on their shoulders. But as the men go through training and more together, they form a group so tight, so formidable, that nothing can break them apart. And when a secretive CIA directive leads them straight into the heart of Uzbekistan to infiltrate an arms cartel, Unit 416's men will need all the grit, tough -- and heart -- they have in order to see this mission home.