First Sergeant (Paperback)

Bryan Frazier

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Darius Blackman Publishing, 2026

9798256197360

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Paperback. Ten weeks to deployment. A company green on every briefing slide. A first sergeant who knows readiness when he sees it.1SG Isaiah Freeman has spent his Army career learning that leadership is measured in what happens to Soldiers after the speeches end. A former inspector general NCO and senior logistician, he is sent to stabilize a broken headquarters company ten weeks before deployment. The unit looks impressive at the change-of-responsibility ceremony, and CPT Evan Holt has the metrics to prove it: training complete, equipment ready, discipline restored, and a mission on schedule. Yet Freeman's first walk through the barracks, maintenance bays, orderly room, and arms room reveals a company that exists only on paper.Behind Freeman's desk is the real weight of the diamond: Article 15 actions, separation packets, urinalysis results, award recommendations, troop-to-task trackers, training calendars, medical limitations, family emergencies, and leaders who want every problem solved quietly. SPC Tiana Webb, a young supply specialist already dismissed as unreliable after seeking behavioral-health care, tries to show him a serialized-item discrepancy. PFC Malik Turner is treated as a discipline problem even as he insists someone is following him. SSG Calvin Brooks performs clean inventories but freezes whenever an authorized contractor enters the arms room. And SFC Lena Morris, exhausted after carrying the company without the title, warns Freeman that asking the wrong questions will destroy everything she held together.When custody and maintenance records place the same weapon in incompatible locations, Freeman realizes Holt's celebrated readiness may conceal falsified reports, hidden casualties, and military equipment already moving toward criminal hands. Raising the alarm could stop the deployment, end careers, and make Freeman the easiest leader to blame. Remaining loyal to the schedule could place his Soldiers-and the public-at far greater risk.First Sergeant is a character-driven contemporary military drama and institutional suspense novel about a veteran Black NCO caught between command pressure and his duty to the formation. Grounded in authentic Army roles, accountability, readiness, Soldier care, inspections, administrative actions, and the limits of enlisted authority, it remains accessible to civilian readers and never reads like a manual. It is ideal for fans of military leadership fiction, toxic command climates, whistleblower suspense, missing-weapons investigations, deployment countdowns, morally complex commanders, and stories where competence carries a personal cost. At its heart is a question every principled leader eventually faces: when the institution rewards the appearance of readiness, who will stand in front of the people hidden behind the numbers? With deployment looming, a seasoned noncommissioned officer discovers that his unit's perfect readiness reports are a dangerous facade. He must decide whether to protect a corrupt command or risk everything to expose the truth. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Titre
First Sergeant (Paperback)
Auteur
Bryan Frazier
Éditeur
Darius Blackman Publishing
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9798256197360

CitiRetail

Stevenage, Royaume-Uni

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