An armored battalion in Viet Nam meets an enemy older than humanity.

Commandos storm an alien prison camp - and learn there are worse fates than death.

A perimeter guard does his job - for thousands of years.

Soldiers, doing the best they can in disasters where nothing is certain - least of all their own survival. Death wears a thousand screaming faces, and the only choice is to go on or go under.

The universe won't care.