During a Mediterranean cruise, the US Naval Fleet was training and doing their last operations over the Mediterranean Sea before the cruise ends. Major Pale was in the process of retiring from the military and being on his last live military operation, he still participates in the war games. Himself, along with 5 other Marine fighters are assigned as the aggressor squadron. They no sooner turn around in flight to start the war games when they run into real enemy fighters heading toward the fleet. Their mission quickly turns from training to defending the fleet.