U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Judah Wakefield just transferred from the USS Theodore Roosevelt to Baghdad, FOB Beta. Living on a Forward Operating Base is fraught with bad food, loud noise, bomb scares, and high-stress decisions that demand right call after right call. Wakefield manages to find a new friend in Israeli Defense Forces officer, Ellie Dayan. The two become the queens of interrogation at FOB Beta's Intel House. But sometimes, their profiling and investigations require some risky field work to find truth in the heart of a war zone.Meanwhile, LCDR David Rivers' Super SEAL Team is training and searching for Saddam Hussein amidst soaring temperatures and 1000 sorties a day flown over head. LT Howard's obnoxious attitude in training poses serious threats to the mission.Then rumors fly of a senior officer gone missing among the revelers as Saddam and his statue are deposed. Rivers draws the assignment to swoop in for the search and rescue, but is warned, "It's your wife who is missing in Baghdad."