Rebels In Arms
Chapter One
From my seat on the dais, I looked over the crowd of cadets about to graduate from South Point Academy. Could they really listen to a middleaged soldier like me drone on about the challenges of being an officer? After all, the commandant, a war vet himself, was already at the lectern and boring them to death with that speech. In fact, when the commandant had asked me to speak, I had panicked because I knew those kids needed something more than elevated diction and fancy turns of phrase. But what?
The commandant glanced over his shoulder and nodded at me. "And now ladies and gentlemen, at this time I'd like to introduce a man whose Special Ops Tactical Manual is required reading here at the academy, a man whose treatise on Racinian conditioning transformed that entire program. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Colonel Scott St. Andrew, chief of the Alliance Security Council."
Applause I had expected, but a standing ovation? Or maybe those cadets were just overjoyed that the commandant was leaving the podium. I dragged myself up, wincing over all the metal surgeons had jammed into me after the nanotech regeneratio ... read full excerpt from Rebels In Arms ebook
