Posted by Dustin on 07.28.2009 at 9:05 pm

As usual, a quick recap, then some thoughts. Again it has been a few days since the show, so I’m trying to remember what happened as best as possible.

Pamela continued teaching her class on base helping new army wives cope with the transition. One of her students was having issues making ends meet, since her husband like to spend. Pamela suggest she get a job, but the woman had little time with two small kids. Pamela suggested she do something from home, there are tons of business on the internet that let you work from home.

The woman later came to Pamela for help. She set up a business, but her house was too small to have a party to sell her goods at. She wanted to use the classroom, but Pamela said as it was base property, it wasn’t possible. Pamela offered her house for her first party. Roland and Roxy attended, they all thought the woman was going to sell Tupperware. Nope, she was selling sex toys! Roland won the door prize, which he wouldn’t open or show anyone. At the end he did show Joan. He took off his robe and simply stated that he was “wearing” the prize.

Frank and Denise continued to date, but Frank didn’t seem ready to take the next step, nor to have Denise move back in. He said he didn’t want to rush it, he couldn’t bear if things didn’t work out a second time. Roland told Denise it would take time, and he guessed Frank was still having issues with the affair. He said for men they often picture it in their heads over and over, it’s tough. Denise worried what if Frank could never get passed what she did?

Haneen’s surgery went well, but Denise told Claudia Joy she’d need to continue therapy in Iraq. She’d need to see a specialist, and it would cost money that Haneen’s aunt didn’t have. Claudia Joy thought they could use some of the money in the FRG fund. However when she brought it up at the meeting, Jennifer Conners felt the money should go to issues and people at home first. Denise suggested they have a vote tomorrow, and both Claudia Joy and Jennifer scrambled to see how many votes they could get.

A soldier came by to see Claudia Joy to contribute personal money of his own for Haneen. He told her how important the translators were, how they were just as much part of their army as they were. He had a heart wrenching story about how his troops translator was gunned down right in front of him, and it was clear the man was the target and not the soldiers. Claudia had the man talk to the FRG about this, and the women all agreed to give the money to Haneen.

Finally, the War Games began, with Frank as the referee. Conners had cheated, he not only knew of Joan’s initial battle strategy, but he had a spy placed in Joan’s midst! Joan took serious hits on the first day, and she couldn’t figure it out. She eventually did though, and she set up a cocky Evan the next day by allowing him to capture phony battle plans. She creamed him in the end, and even got the kill-shot in on Evan herself.

Joan was the winner, but then she told Evan off. She decided to look through the portfolios of her commanding team and was shocked to find one member of her staff went to school with Evan. Both this guy and Evan found themselves in hot water.

Michael gave Evan a huge lecture. Not only had Evan suffered the biggest defeat in the history of these games, but his methods went against the spirit of these games. He told him that because the General looked highly on him, that there was a desk job at the pentagon for him, he suggested he take it! He also told Evan he still believes he has the makings of a good leader, but he has to decide what kind of leader he wants to be.

Joan told Trevor she would have Evan Conner’s letter of reprimand removed from his file, and she suggested he begin making preparations to take the Sergeant’s exam.

My Thoughts
Oh how sweet it was to see Evan go down in flames! Seriously, watching Joan get the kill shot in was awesome. I do admit though I had hoped Trevor was in on her plan and she would have let him do it.

Of course even sweeter than Evan going, is that his horrible witch of a wife will go with him. Bye bye Jennifer, we so won’t miss you . . . at all.

I guess I don’t really have too much to comment on. The majority of the show was the war games, and it was just awesome to see Joan come out on top.