Hot Box is Aaron’s debut work, and it is being illustrated by one of the U.S. Marine Corps’ very own Combat Artists, Major Mike Reynolds on Instagram @Forty_Mike_Mike_Art. It is scheduled for publication in 2025 by Pane Publishing Company.

Hot Box offers an intimate glimpse into a day-in-the-life of enlisted Marines at war and the unvarnished truth about life as a junior Marine, NCO, and Staff NCO.

An unnamed junior enlisted Marine is a new arrival to camp and faces aspects of war that unnerve the bravest of men. A young NCO discovers that leading the excentric Marines under his charge, while staying out of the cross hairs of his superiors, is more difficult than teaching a bucket of worms to sing the national anthem. And a Staff NCO's letters to his family invite us into the mind, and heart, of a Korean American who is isolated by a severe language barrier and perceived as evil incarnate by his subordinates. But is he?

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