This is the first book in a series about the life and service of people who joined the army—specifically the infantry. People who chose the path of an combined-arms commander. The hero of the first book is a boy Yura—born back in 1967. Garrisons, schools, new friends and new enemies, neighbors, his father’s service, study at a higher combined-arms command school… Why did the main character choose the path of a combined-arms commander—and how did that happen?