When career soldier Pete Griffin is sent back home to serve at the army base near his family’s home, his wife, nurse wife Patty, is deployed to Afghanistan, leaving him to raise his daredevil son Chris and moody adolescent daughter Becky. Helping Pete overcome the obstacles of single fatherhood are the neighborhood army wives: Sue, an older grounded woman, Emma, a sassy pregnant intellectual, Roberta, an overweight airhead, and Missy, a teenage bride and older sister figure to Becky.