Brothers in Arms

311pp. For colonist Scott St. Andrew, the only route off his poisonous rock of a home planet is the elite South Point Military Academy on the moon Exeter. If he can complete the military's most grueling training program, he will qualify to become an officer in the Guard Corps of the Terran Alliance. But genetic defects have reduced Scott's one-in-a-thousand chance for escape to practically nil and have made him a target of ridicule and ritual hazing by his classmates.