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After only a four day courtship, Roxy impetuously decides to marry Private First Class Trevor LeBlanc and moves with her two kids to his Army post. Floundering in her new life as an Army wife, she takes a job bar-tending at an off-post bar. While on the post, Roxy meets Claudia Joy Holden, who believes that her husband Colonel Michael Holden's promotion didn't come through because of base politics. Another Army wife, Pamela Moran, is heavily pregnant with twins - she's secretly acting as a surrogate to get her family out of debt. Meanwhile, psychiatrist Dr. Roland Burton is trying to reconnect with his wife, Lt. Colonel Joan Burton, who has just returned from Afghanistan. Then there's Denise Sherwood, who is dealing with her son Jeremy's anger-management issues as her strict husband, Major Frank Sherwood, is about to be deployed. The unlikely group bonds when Pamela unexpectedly goes into labor at Claudia Joy's wives' tea party. Not wanting everyone to know her family's dire financial situation, Pamela relies on these new friends to keep her surrogacy from being exposed.

The preparations for an Iraq tour go on in Fort Marshall. Jeremy tells his pa about his refusal to go to West Point and presumed psychological disorder. Trevor makes his will and tells Roxy he wants to adopt her lovely boys to spare them his horrible youth as foster reject. Sergeant Peter Belgrad has a physiological crisis. Pamela ends the whispering by shouting her surrogate results trough the microphone. A helicopter crash probably means a widow on the base.

Roxy learns that Marilyn Polarski is having an affair; Pamela is devastated when Chase is suddenly called away on a Delta Force mission, Joan is torn between retiring from the Army or facing a possible court martial.

Instead of comforting each-other now his father Frank is MIA, probably dead, Jeremy's ma meanly tries to make the boy feel guilty. Sergeant Peter Belgrad takes his doctor and the major's wife hostage to demand a meeting with his CO, who stupidly failed to report truly his previous armed break-down. The doc gets to the bottom of his unit's bloody Afghanistan mission trauma, but just before Belgrad can hand over his pistol a sharpshooter kills him. Trevor LeBlanc's adoption papers for Finn and T.J. get filed to his delight.

Trevor LeBlanc gets on great with his kid stepsons Finn and T.J., yet his wife Roxy's joy over the plan to adopt them, although the biological fathers may still cause problems, is overshadowed by her inability to help prepare or even accept his orders to leave for Iraq. Chase Moran is far from amused that his wife Pamela begrudges him any 'luxury' while her parents aren't paid back to the last cent. Worse, trouble with delivering the newborn babies cause the surrogate mother, who stays 'just a day' in major Michael Holden's home, to bond with the twins.

Jeremy is found by his ma trough lover Amanda, but she can't talk him out of enlisting. Returning his youngest fellow soldier's goodbye message to father Craddock get Frank thinking about his own disowned son, but not act. Michael Holden tells Amanda about Jeremy's excess, which she first can't believe, then doesn't care about enough, so they sneakily meet and make love the night before he boards the boot cam bus. Trevor, the boys and friends enthusiastically help Marda prepare a birthday surprise party for Roxy. But the loan she hoped for falls true and she abandons the babysat boys to drawn that sorrow, which earns her irrevocable marching orders.

While minding his rascal adoptive sons and trying to teach him flag respect, Trevor badly hurts his knee, disqualifying him for a tour of duty during six months. Mother-in-law Marda Brooks, an (ex?)alcoholic, makes her first-ever visits, unannounced, actually having lost her home and business. Jeremy's dad major Frank Sherwood, merely bruised, gets a hero's welcome and accepts his boy's failure to enroll at West Point in favor of architecture, until Jeremy owes up he lost his self-control with ma and is completely disowned. Amanda's sister betrays her affair with Jeremy to pa Michael Holden, who bans Jeremy from seeing her. The desperate knave enlists in the army.

The Fort Marshall base school's new arts teacher is ex-cop Pamela's old friend Scott Decker, and they still lust for each-other. Trevor finally gets a good medical report: he'll be training again soon. Army brat Javier's ma, Diego's widow Dolores, can't face moving out within 6 months as regulations require, but gets help. Michael Holden tries to keep daughter Amanda in line, who confesses her love night with Jeremy to ma, who fails in her second attempt to become a base hospital nurse.

Munitions are stolen from Fort Marshall, setting the stage for a terrorist alert, early deployments and shocking twist when the bomber is revealed.

Frank Sherwood expects wife Denise to make network for his promotion hope her priority too, but is impressed by her ER nursing efficiency enough to agree to her own career relaunch. CO Michael Holden tries to steer the upcoming series of postings and promotions as he has general Ted Baker's confidence. Chase and Trevor feel good again.

Colonel Michael Holden's base CO position is on the line now general Baker has recovered from cardiac trouble. Holden can't appreciate his wife's ill-considered attack at general's wife Leonore, whose dirty gossip is smartly countered by a trap set by the deciding general's wife. Jeremy's dad gets his deployment orders, grudgingly accepts to visit first and finally admits his absence, even when not on foreign tour, drive the boy to his desperate move. The new PR officer, major Clay, has a bruising first meeting with even sassier Pamela, yet makes her a radio show offer she only accepts when pushed by her friends.

Colonel Holden is promoted to brigadier-general. His predecessor Baker's wife Leonore files for divorce. Trevor encourages Roxy to make use of her business potential, but has to discourage long-term ambitions, given the army's habitual base transfers. Chase takes offense at Pamela's outspoken, unpaid radio-show. Ron's marital misery sparks a notorious bar-brawl. His distracted wife is chosen as Holden's XO, but screws up the first major logistic task big-time and dares blame Ron, who refuses 'apologizing' for wanting a proper wife-mother, so they plan a divorce, putting separate careers first.

Trevor finally and happily starts training for war action again, without complaint despite the grueling blisters directly after revalidation, but Roxy wines to her friends that he's too tired to perform in bed. Worse, she goes behind his back to ask for medical care, which only gets him the demeaning nickname 'baby soft'. Widow Hannah's official demand for an inquest in Congress concerning her late husband lieutenant-colonel Derek White's death, presumably in friendly fire, illegally sent to Pakistan, causes outspoken loyalty conflicts.

Instead of a terrorist action, the missing explosives were stolen by sergeant George Polarski in a deranged revenge for his wife's adultery. It kills four people in coarse Betty Camden's Hump Bar and wounded 15 more. The Criminal Investigation Division (CID) starts interrogations. For survivors, all that only adds to the worries about loved men deployed in Iraq, Trevor's Roxy turns paranoid until she gets reassured he's still safe. Jeremy gets his first home leave. His lover Amanda was among the victims because she procrastinated leaving for college.

Trevor revalidates at record-speed, but becomes dependent on pills and his doctor still won't let him return to active duty soon, yet he does an outstanding job as involuntary temporary XO's driver. Travis encourages, even helps Roxy taking a business course. Emmalin's infatuation with Quinn is completely reversed when the handsome knave is discovered to be part of drug dealing at the base high school. Dr. Chris Ferlinghetti sadly solves Denise's dilemma by dying.

Claudia Joy's mother shows up. Roland helps a teen whose father was killed in Iraq. Roxy's about to take the GED and is nervous. And Frank confronts Denise about her relationship with Getti.

Claudia Joy learns the real reason for her mother Charlotte's (guest-star Marsha Mason) visit when her father Randall (guest-star Len Cariou "Brotherhood") arrives unexpectedly at the Holden household.

After Roxy tells Roland about her suspicions concerning about Trevor's painkiller dependence, his confidence is betrayed, Trevor is 'temporarily' replaced as XO's driver, Roland is banned from the bar. General Holden diplomatically finds a way to convince foreign Academy mate Paolo Ruiz, a close presidential adviser, to help renew a US base's contract in his country. Jeremy leaves for duty in Iraq, while his parents discretely discuss how to separate with minimal stress for the boy. Pamela remains obsessed by a possible stalker.

General Holden slowly looses his patience with his wife's wining and her troublesome friends, and his surviving daughter Emmalin with both of them, but minding her is just what helps Denis trough. Trevor is deployed in Iraq and confronted with unimagined horror but reports home he's adjusting well. Chase surprises his family with understanding and a home-cooked meal.

Brave, handsome corporal Mac, who lost both legs in Bagdad, charms Denise without any infidelity on either side. They become platonic friends over their lost passion for motorcycles, and his surprise goodbye present for her is his. Even when the general tries to teach Emmalin stick-driving, her sister's ghost gets in the way, just as it still does in his marital bed. Chase has a few day off his Iraq tour, which he spends mainly helping good son Lucas and brat Katie rehearse their parts in a Jeanne d'Arc church play. Little Fyn's imaginary friend harry inspires him to try his courting skills on none less then the general's wife, who stunningly finds Harry is the same specter who comes advise her to resume enjoying life.

After Trevor gets wounded while patrolling in Iraq, it's a long wait for news, but his family feels it was worth it: daddy is coming home! Meanwhile Betty admits her beastly behavior to the boys actually stems from infertility frustration. When her insurance settlement finally comes trough, she insists to rebuild the Hump Bar, with Roxy in charge. General Holden has a confidence crisis but remains on post, given general acclaim for his balanced attitude after the bomb, except from the rogue solider's widow. Denise is tempted to start riding corporal Mac's present-motorbike by 'Getti', who turns out to be doctor Chris Ferlinghetti, a new surgeon in the base hospital.

Trevor returns home a hero but is conflicted; Frank, still in Iraq, becomes worried about Denise's newfound independence.

Trevor has a hard time being paraded around as public hero while killing didn't feel right at all, yet reaffirms his patriotic sense of duty and tells Roxy it cancels his preference for being with his family while his unit is deployed. Pamela initially declines an offer to work for commercial radio in Atlanta, but resigns when censored by Lt. Colonel Evan Connors for questioning army tour rules together with Claudia-Joy on air. General Holden overrules that while Pam waves a topics list suggested by the Atlanta station boss. Roxy rightly questions a contractor's estimate for the Hump Bar's rebuilding, which Betty announces is all hers as chemo fails so she's off to a Californian clinic. Frank calls off his objections to Denise riding Mac's motorbike, yet she bitches about his phrasing and resumes 'morning dates' with doc Ghetti.

Trevor is formally reprimanded, yet privately supported, by general Holden for his coarse attitude towards the press. He's happy to return on Iraqi tour, unlike his family. Jeremy has a training period on the base, but dislikes late lover Amanda's kid sister expecting them to spend time together. Dr. Chris Ferlinghetti and Denise discover they both love poetry, another step towards uneasy romance. Chase continues spoiling his family, now as breakfast cook. Lieutenant colonel Evan Connors prepares to take over the XO-job thanks to Joan's pregnancy. The Hump-bar is reopened and renamed after its former owner.

Trevor assures everyone he's recovering well and pleased to prepare for resuming his active Iraq tour, but can barely bite the pain with plenty of pills. Chase is arrested at night and kept completely incommunicado, accused of art-theft, as he can only explain afterward to protect him and the hunt for the real materialist war-criminals. Dr. Chris Ferlinghetti admits to Denise he hopes for more then friendship, yet after kissing she claims to remain faithful to Frank. General Holden patiently handles mixed signals concerning his rekindled child-wish from Claudia-Joy.