Commander Rabb and Lt. Austin get wrapped up in a military undercover operation to stop a militant group from getting stinger missiles. However, during their investigation a prison break occurs and Austin is taken prisoner by the brig break plotters and an undercover military operative. The team soon learns that the militants have a much bigger goal in mind, as the group gains control of a nuclear device at the Sea-Tac Island Naval Base. Rabb must fight against the obstruction by the base commander who refuses to see what is really going on, if he is to save himself, Austin and thousands of others from certain passing.
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.