Richard L. Fister

Roland is offered a job as a high school counselor; Denise makes a new friend; Joan informs her troops of her pregnancy.

Finn develops a schoolboy crush on Claudia Joy and asks her out on a date; Denise bonds with a wounded soldier named Mac; Chase tells Pamela and their kids that he has to leave on another mission.

Evan Connor's wife, Jennifer, arrives on post hoping to get involved in the FRG; Denise decides to redecorate the house and get a tattoo; Roland's mother comes to visit the new baby.

Claudia Joy's mother makes an unexpected visit; Roland counsels a lonely teenager whose father was recently killed in Iraq; Roxy panics before taking her GED test.

The Holdens face major changes; Pamela questions her decision to marry into the Army; Roland must help a former patient; Frank remains overseas leaving Denise more time to question her marriage.

Denise befriends the wife of a young soldier who has been injured in Iraq; Joan and Roland struggle to find a nanny for Sarah Elizabeth; Emmalin meets her pen pal, Logan, on the way to school.