The members of this group are:
Major Derek Podaleski, U.S. Army intelligence officer
Captain Pierre "Long Shot Lou"LeBlanc, US Marine artillery officer
Captain Eugene Watson, US Army helicopter pilot
Captain Neville Morris, His Royal Highness' Medical Corps
Lieutenant Malachi Travers, US Navy SEAL
Staff Sergeant Jack Knox, US Army Infantry
Staff Sergeant Martin "Popeye" Peoples, USMC Scout/Sniper
Sergeant Roberta "Bobbie Jo" Foxworth, US Army Special Forces
and last but definately not least Seaman James "Boats" Sullivan, US Navy SEAL.
A small band of survivors finds themselves far from friendly territory, locked away and forgotten in Vladimir Zhirinovsky Political Re-Education Camp, a prison camp for officers, troublemakers, and prisoners with special talents. Under the thumb of the Polish Commandant Colonel Shumantsky, the Russian co-commander Major Federov and the camp political officer, Captain Pudinsky, they plot escape. Barely tolerating the conditions and forced to labor for their captors, they all dream of returning home.
This motley group seizes the intiative during a prison riot and escapes from the camp. Unfortunately Capt Pierre "Long Shot Lou" LeBlanc is lost in the attempt. Finding themselves far from friendly territory, they decide to make their way south to the town of Wlodwa.
Along the way they encounter a group of marauders. After a firefight, the group finds themselves owners of various ex-Soviet equipment including a well worn BTR-80. Later the group camps near the town of Wlodwa, Malachi and Watson are sent to scout the town and are captured by the frightened townspeople. After negotiating with the Mayor of Wlodwa, the group agrees to go after a band of Polish soldiers who have recently stolen the towns medical supplies. Accompanied by two Polish guides, Karl and Simon, the group tracks down the Polish soldiers. Unfortunately, Malachi is wounded in an ambush set by the soldiers, and in the counter attack, Knox is also wounded. The group succesfully drives off the soldiers and recovers the supplies.
The group proceeds along and picks up a Ukrainian tanker, Sergeant Lev Draviodvich and United Kingdom civilian Sir Denis Chapman-Cole. Chapman-Cole appears to be a businessman detained at the beginning of the war by the Russians, but the wily group discovers he is actually an MI-5 agent trying to return home, with a mysterious briefcase.
The group is briefly detained as they try to cross the Wieparz river. Peoples and Malachi set up an observation post as the rest try to bluff their way through a Russian bridge crossing. The BTR group manages to bluff their way across the bridge, but run into an ambush. During the ambush, Ski is lost in the river while unhitching still. Knox and Boats are killed when an RPG round blasts the BTR turret, Chapman-Cole bails out of the BTR and is lost. Boats is killed while heroically guiding the BTR across the river. The BTR manages to escape the ambush by crossing the river and leaving the still behind. Peoples and Malachi attack the bridge crossing to stop them from mortar bombing the rest of the group. During the firefight, Malachi is killed.
The surviving group members rest and recuperate in a nearby town. They train the militia in exchange for food and shelter. A week later they head out. They are ambushed at night. The attacking force quickly overwhelms the small group. Watson alone escapes and keeps heading west. He later links up with a group of ex-5th Infantry Division soldiers heading south.