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Kotaro is a Japanese-American lieutenant and F-14 Tomcat pilot with profound military heritage, struggles with personal hardships that include the deaths of his parents, two officers in the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, as well as that of his teen model ex-girlfriend. Kate, a female naval lieutenant fresh out of flight training in Pensacola, Florida, and Oceana, Virginia, is the only child of a US Air Force general. She is Kotaro's flight navigator and is the sole girl who keeps him sane and aligned with his duties as both leader of the people and guardian of the sky. Bryan, a boyish aircraft electronics technician, struggles with being different from a family of soldiers and yearns to carve his own path in the naval service. He serves as the younger brother to both Kotaro and Kate and is very much best friends with them albeit being of a junior enlisted rank. When fighting breaks out in the Persian Gulf for the second time, Kotaro, Kate, and Bryan are called to action with their squadron, the legendary "Fighting Regents" of VFAS-1X aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). As conflict ensues in the Middle East, the trio must cope with the realities of war and look out for one another in hopes of surviving for a chance to come home.