Two wild-spirited cadets at the Virginia Military Institute, Billy Randolph and Dan Crawford, try to hold back their rule-breaking tendencies in the weeks before graduation but things get a bit harried and difficult when their buddy Bing, who is secretly married, learns that his wife is pregnant. When Dan starts romancing the commandant's daughter Claire and Billy woos Joyce, the pair realize that they haven't shaped up at all and get mixed up in even worse circumstances when they try to hide Bing's wife in the barracks during the pre-graduation football game and prom. All three young men get their diplomas without any of the camp's officers really knowing what went on.