Tom Allen, the son of a decorated war hero who is feared to have died in battle, wins a scholarship to the Culver military academy. His arrogance and unwillingness to comply with the academy's strict rules soon gets him in trouble, but through the help of his roommate he gets by.

Tom Allen (Jackie Cooper) is a cadet at Culver Military Academy who discovers that his hero father, whom he believed to be dad, is very much alive and no hero at all, his Congressional Medal of Honor having been totally undeserved. This distresses him so much that he becomes arrogant and disobedient to the point of being expelled from the school.—Les Adams <[email protected]>