Ground Command is Book three of the Space Fleet Academy series. Book 3 follows Joe Johnson after he was expelled from the Denebola Space Fleet Academy and accepted an enlistment in an Initial Insertion Unit. An I.I.U. was where Fleet sent the worst of the worst and was considered by many to be a death sentence. The following is the back cover blurb.
Expelled, canned, dismissed, washed-out…loser. Those were Joseph Mack Johnson’s thoughts while jogging to the spaceport to catch a ride to the Initial Insertion Unit where he had accepted an enlistment. Even the Denebola Space Fleet Academy expulsion board was shocked…first in, last out; and abandoned when an attack failed. An I.I.U. was a death sentence.
But what bothered Joe more than his survival could he trust Fleet at all? He discovered evidence the Illuminati were making deals with the Slith on losses…before battles were even fought! Worse, it looked like they had agreed to let the Slith attack Adhara Four; where his parents were living.
Approaching the space port, Joe organized his survive the I.I.U.; flip the tables if pre-selected to die; and arm his parents and the Adhara Four colonists. Joe sighed. He’d start with staying alive. But if he was being setup to die—he wasn’t going down alone!