Erin and Mary Ellen enter a `Run and Ride' race, challenging a traditionally all-male domain. Elizabeth becomes a task master in training Mary Ellen and Erin.
Jim-Bob finds out he is not eligible to fly in the Air Corps due to bad vision. He realises he can join to work on the planes even if he cannot fly them.
Jim-Bob, home on furlough, meets an old girlfriend (Jennifer Jason Leigh) claiming to be carrying his baby; Ben defies his captors.
