Der er fred i USA, og dødsmaskinen Major Payne fra marinekorpsets specialstyrke får sine direktiver, der fører lige til arbejdsformidlingen. Payne kan dog ikke tilpasse sig det civile liv. Han finder derfor en vej tilbage til militæret - som befalingshavende for militærakademiet, Madison. Hvordan skal militærets mest effektive og hemmelige våben tackle opgaven at disciplinere en gruppe unge rekrutter, der stadig er våde bag ørerne og knap nok har fået hår på hagen? Men han er parat! I hvert fald indtil en af skolens rådgivere, dr. Emily Walburn, bestemmer sig for at hjælpe.
Berlin-muren står for fald, og alle forbereder sig på en ny verdensorden. Men på Theodore Roosevelt Army Base udenfor Stuttgart oplever soldaten Ray Elwood, hvordan hans egen kolde krig er ved at blive hvidglødende.
Elwood er en charmerende småsvindler; en værnepligtig, for hvem der er lykkes at omdanne sin militærtid til en blomstrende sortbørsforretning og da den nye oversergent, Lee, ankommer og har det erklærede mål at rydde op på basen, er Elwood overbevist om, at han sagtens kan klare den nytilkomne overordnede.
På militærbasen Presidio uden for San Fransisco bliver en kvindelig soldat myrdet. Kriminalbetjent Jay Austin får til opgave at opklare sagen, også selvom han ikke kommer særlig godt ud af det med basens chef Alan Caldwell. Det lykkes dog de to brushaner at forene kræfterne i en efterforskning, der leder dem på sporet af en smuglerbande.
En gruppe forskere opdager en UFO i isen på Antarktis. Det lykkes af bjærge piloten, tilbage til den nærliggende base. Piloten viser sig slet ikke at være død, men derimod en yderst voldelig fremmed livsform, der på trods af sin menneskelignende skikkelse er mere i familie med planterne. Det forhindre dog ikke Tingen i at dræbe alt på sin vej.
Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when his old nemesis turned the second best terrorist in the world, Major Vladikov, takes over the island of San Moreno and starts building a nuclear launch silo on it. With help from his old crew and hindrances from Captain Wallace B. Binghampton, who sank a cruise liner a while back, McHale tries to put Vladikov out of business.
Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become invloved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless to say, the authorities don't want them to stick their noses into this
Doctor Eva Marini takes up a position at an army base to investigate the sexual behavior of the Italian male soldier and soon finds out she's taken on more than she bargained for.
Bundeswehr soldier Klaus’ regiment is stationed in France, to take part in NATO maneuvers. The soldiers are ordered to be kind to the populace, since the West German High Command wishes the French to forget the atrocities that were committed during the Second World War. Klaus falls in love with Jeanne, the daughter of the local mayor. He discovers that his commanders intend to demolish the ruins of a local church, in which civilians were murdered by the German occupation forces at 1944. A local journalist who researches the event discovers that West German General Rucker ordered the massacre, but he is mysteriously murdered. Klaus defies his commanding officer Siebert, who instructs him to steal the documents indicting Rucker, and hands the evidence over to Jeanne.
Wingsuit BASE jumping is often presented as a thrill seeking adrenaline rush. Spellbound takes us deeper into the more contemplative aspects of jumping, as David Walden and friends venture into the mountains around his home in New Zealand. Beautiful scenery and hypnotic cinematography eject us from our daily lives into a world of air, earth and flight.
Before World War II, Ikego village was an idyllic agriculture community. The Imperial Navy took over the village and the hills to build the largest ammunition preserve in Asia. When Japan lost, these facilities were taken over by the US Navy, and are now housing for the American soldiers.