Cmdr. Rabb and Lt. Austin investigate the possible hazing and attempted cuddle of a Marine PFC during a landing exercise. When drugs are found near where the Marine is found, the investigation takes a strange twist. Rabb and Austin put their lives on the line as they confront a major drug gang to solve their case, but soon receive help from an unlikely source. The injured Marine's comrades, forced to bend the constitutional rule of Posse Comitatus, come to their rescue.
After being diagnosed with night blindness, Lt. Cmdr. Harmon Rabb, an F-14 Tomcat fighter pilot, is forced to change careers. Cmdr. Rabb chooses to join the Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. There he both defends and sometimes prosecutes Navy and Marine Corps defendants. He is sometimes assisted by fellow lawyer, Lt. Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie, and his other fellow JAG staff.
Many of Rabb's cases require him to both keep up his F-14 qualifications and travel the world, in order to bring justice to the cases he is trying.
Rabb must also deal with the fact that his father, also a former Navy pilot, never returned home after being held prisoner after he was shot down in North Vietnam. Rabb believing his father is still alive continues the search he has pursued to find his father, since his teens.