Sergeant Major Zack Carey is serving what is his final tour of duty at an Army base in Clemens, Georgia. Zack doesn't like the way the Army keeps the base and the bar is not what he's accustomed to. So he goes off base to get a beer. When he goes to the bar one of the local prostitutes tries to come on to Zack but Zack turns her down. That's when the deputy who appears to be her pimp beating her up. That's when Zack strikes him. Later he learns that the Sheriff is corrupt and takes what happened to the Deputy as an attack on him and tries to get Zack but the Army backs him and Zack is not intimidated. That's when they arrest his son on trumped up drug charges. Before Zack can fix it, his wife tries to get a lawyer for their son but this only pushes the Sheriff to send their son to a prison farm. With no other recourse Zack gets into his own vintage Sherman Tank and busts his son out and they try to make it to the state line so that they can expose the Sheriff.