The Regiment — John Dalmas

All the Confederation of Worlds wanted was a little peace. But they realized that peace doesn't come cheap, so they decided to apply their personnel selection technology to war and pick the greatest potential warriors out of their planets-wide database of psych profiles. And they hired the finest mercenaries in the galaxy to train the first test regiment of teenagers -- they hired the legendary coal-black veterans of Tess to create the first ever White Regiment.