Schustermeyer is looking forward to his senior year in high school in balmy Oceanside, CA. However, he learns that his Father, a USMC Major, has been transferred to Albany, GA, so the entire family packs up and heads east to the Marine Corps Supply Center. For the next twelve months, Schustermeyer tries to fulfill his 1965 New Year's Vow in the South...this is a story of comeuppance, sibling rivalry, initiations, and best of all, the human heart. Funny, irreverent, sardonic...move over "Catcher in the Rye" - there is competition now that Schustermeyer has arrived.