 A Captain George Taylor of the U.S. Army is leading an Apache gunship squadron, patrolling over Shaba province, when advanced South African gunships destroy it.After crashing (and mercy-killing his fatally wounded gunner, he finds an abandoned Army camp, and forages supplies for a long trek, initially on foot, to the Zairean capital, Kinshasa.Along the way he learns that the attack on his squadron was part of a bigger South African offensive that had mauled U.S. forces in Zaire; South African commandos and Zairean guerrillas also destroy B-2 bombers at an airbase in Kinshasa.