Armed with ideals of duty and honor young marines historically deploy to fight their country's wars. In Afghanistan, they found things different. Risking their lives to improve the bottom lines of international companies, marines were thrown into the business of war and they were unable to equate their living and dying as a profit center. No one informed them of the interlocking directorates between the military and civilian enterprises that were pursuing the war. Lieutenant X. Moran tries to do his job as he thinks it should be carried out and butts up against contractors reaping illegal profits off the blood and sweat of his troops. With the ideas of duty and honor, he becomes an enemy to his countrymen when he exposes their corruption. There is too much money to be made off the war to allow the lieutenant to stand in the way, and a business decision is made to remove him.