Never Again #8

Chief Petty Officer John "Hutch" Hutchinson is a Navy lifer who's spent nearly forty years in uniform, from World War I through Korea, and he's finally ready to hang it up—but when a group of curious sailors asks him why he never left after his twenty or thirty years were up, Hutch reflects on the wars that kept pulling him back, from the Atlantic sub-chasers to Pearl Harbor to the Pacific campaign to Korea. As he recounts the lessons he learned about why the fighting mattered, we discover what it costs a man to be so good at a job that the world keeps asking him to do it.

Jeb Buckley Jr. joins the U.S. Marines under Monty Hall, determined to step out of his famous father's shadow, but when the unit is ambushed during a dangerous patrol in Korea, his fear threatens to doom them all. As Monty and the men fight to survive enemy fire, napalm strikes, and a treacherous escape, Jeb must confront what courage really means—and whether he has it within himself.