Fightin' Army #16

After months of front-line combat, PFC Patrick Michael Quigley and PFC Marmaduke (The Duke) Beals find themselves stationed at a remote desert rocket facility—and their luck takes a wild turn when they run into Lotta Huggins, a woman from their past who's now working as a secretary to one of the base's top scientists. When the research team needs human test subjects for a secret experiment on how people would react to a simulated moonbound flight, Lotta sees her chance to solve a very personal problem, and she sets her sights on getting both soldiers aboard the rocket for an afternoon they'll never forget.

Fighting men Quigley and Beals thought combat was their calling—until their commanding officers strip them of weapons and reassign them as combat medics, much to their fury. When their unit rushes to the front to repel an enemy breakthrough, the two rivals must confront what it truly means to serve their fellow Marines under fire.

Marines Tex and Canarsie find themselves trapped on Sky Island with a mysterious stone idol—one that the superstitious soldiers believe carries a curse after several of their own go missing. When the idol begins actively signaling enemy positions to the surrounding Red forces, the squad must devise a dangerous plan to use the statue itself as a weapon before the Reds obliterate the island completely. A tense battle of wits and firepower unfolds as the soldiers race against time and their own fears to turn the tables on the enemy.