Officer-Cadet — Rick Shelley

Expelled from Earth's prestigious North American Military Academy on trumped-up charges, Lon Nolan's honor seemed shattered. But the young student of warfare vowed to regain his good name--with the Dirigent Mercenary Corps, the DMC, where the bloody craft of baffle had been refined into an art.

Now the green recruit has to prove his worthiness--not in an academy classroom, but in the blood rite of first combat. No amount of schooling could have prepared Nolan's battalion for what awaited them--an assault more brutal than any the DMC had faced in over a century...