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A hard-nosed, conservative Marine impulsively proposes to the liberal reporter doing a story on him and agrees to help her raise her three daughters.

Follows a writer and his wife in their lives as a family with her daughter and son by a previous marriage and their own 3-year-old girl.

After being unknowingly entered into the Outstanding Armed Services Family of the Year competition and getting picked, the Major refuses to do it, but the family wants to. Things get heated as a rude family is competing against them.

Worried about the Major's health, Polly asks him to stay out of other people's business and relax more, which is complicated by General Craig announcing he's the landlord of rental housing property that Holowachuk lives in and manages.

With the man above him retiring, General Craig is next in line, but MacGillis is also a potential candidate. But when the list of potential candidates for promotion comes in, the Major's name isn't on there, prompting him to re-consider life in the Marine Corps, since it would be his second pass over for promotion.

MacGillis, General Craig, Holowachuk, and Gunny are unsure of their future in the Marine Corps as downsizing could eliminate their jobs all together, and with that uncertainty, a hiring manager from a civilian company lures them into considering a career outside the Core, with at one of them more lured than the others. But a prolonged rain storm that brings emergencies like flooding, changes things.

The Major discovers a dog in his office and surmises it's Private Harris'. It seems the dog named Elmo belongs to another Marine who got transfered and couldn't bring him with him. So he asked Harris to find him a new home. And couldn't keep him in the barracks. The Major thinks the girls might like him. But before he brings him to her he asks Gunny to take him and she bonds with him. When she gives him, she misses him.

MacGillis must find a new job after taking retirement instead of moving.

After the family takes a day off shopping in another town without MacGillis and come back to find a strange women in the house wearing one of his shirts, he must explain to Polly and the girls what happened in the 24 hours they were gone.

A Russian major and his son visit from the new Russia, after the fall of the the U.S.S.R., and immediately they start butting heads over superiority which gets out of control when the MacGillis finds Elizabeth making out with the Russian major's son.

Everybody is surprised when General Craig announces he had been transfered to the White House and is taking Lt. Holowachuk with him. Things go south when their new commander, General Wallace, show up and turns out to be an unfriendly hard-nosed Marine whom, along with his aide, look down on the two.

While at the office Gunny's apartment is robbed and she loses everything, including her eagle and gun collection. With the help of her friends at the office, she gets through it all.

Polly's campaign for mayor hits a snag when her opponent claims to have discovered that Polly posed for a gentlemen's magazine. Holowachuk gets his first ticket after going over the speed limit at General Craig's request.

The construction and decoration of a 1940's theme dance ball, to commemorate World War II, proves to be the battle ground for friendship and relationship issues, and the actual ball itself peace talks.

Polly is reluctantly initiated into the Marine wives club by joining a group of them for Jane Wayne Day -- a day each year where they get to experience a little what MArine training is like.

Elizabeth gets her first job after only one day of looking, but when the family sees that the uniform is like that of a Playboy Bunny, they want her to quit.

MacGillis coaches a group of ten year-old girls in Robin's basketball team to finally have a shot at winning a game. Robin's inability to take any of it seriously causes her and MacGillis to butt heads.

After Lt. Holowachuk learns MacGillis has never had a birthday or birthday party, he decides to rectify that.

After Major John MacGillis gives an interview to newspaper reporter Polly Cooper, the results are less than desired, so he tries again, only things go further than just a positive newspaper article.

An old boyfriend of Polly's whom helped her get through life after her husband died, comes to town and wants to work on a writing project with her, but MacGillis is second guessing the idea of the two being together.

The Major is dealing with a private who's misbehaving. He tells the private to blow off some steam. Elizabeth is dating a guy who's a roadie with a rock band. When she brings him home and the Major and Polly catch them and it's the private. It seems that he and Elizabeth have not exactly been honest with each other. But they still want to see each other so the Major and Polly have to figure out what to do.

An old friend of McGillis takes him out for a special night out before the wedding, but when McGillis shows up far later than expected, a wedge is put between him and Polly, making both question whether or not to marry.

McGillis finally meets the man he's been playing chess with via mail for years -- a 12 year-old boy, and his inability to beat the kid drives him crazy. Robin has her first crush, on McGillis' young opponent.

Two weeks after returning from deploy, Lt. Holowachuk is still antsy for more action. MacGillis wants a big truck called a Mud Monster, after being told he's old.

While going through a box of old items from MacGillis' childhood, he finds a Zorro watch and remembers he stole it when he was a kid. It eats at him until he decides to make amends.

A new kid in school has turned out to be a bully toward Casey, which she solves in a way that gets her in trouble. Lt. Holowashuk wants to go to Vegas for the weekend, but is so worried about what MacGillias wants, that he changes his mind to stay and pull non-ordered duty.

Polly befriends a city councilwoman who seems charming and polite, but chews MacGillis out and pokes him in the stomach over laying off civilians from Camp Hollister. Polly doesn't believe him.

Elizabeth falls for her tutor. Gunny's new boyfriend says something that puts the relationship in trouble.

MacGillis' father comes to visit, but things are uneasy and it seems his father is always disappointed and putting him down. Polly is asked to run for mayor.

The Major's dad turns out to have not left town quite yet, giving them both a chance to hopefully work out their differences.

General Craig charges MacGillis with writing a welcome home speech for the remaining stationed Hollister troops returning from the end of the Persian Gulf War. The Major decides it's time to adopt the kids.

McGillis and Polly try to get married through some setbacks, including an unknown base intruder.

Attempting to be spontaneous, Mac instigates a last-minute family trip to Hawaii.

While interviewing Gunny for the new Man Behind the Uniform feature in the base newspaper, Polly discovers Gunny owns a carved eagle once belonging to a famous Marine. But when the eagle is completely destroyed by accident, Gunny will not express her feelings and locks up.

In order to promote a better image and keep Camp Hollister from closure, General Craig has invited over a photographer from the Men of the Military calendar makers to scout potential base talent.

Everybody in the office is surprised when General Craig suddenly leaves for a day to get some kind of surgery.

A possible coup in a Central America country has MacGillis and troops on stand by the deploy, and things between him and the family become strained since he cannot reveal to anybody what's happening.

MacGillis is back from deploy and the family is being overly polite and walking on tip-toes for some reason.

Due to budget cutbacks, General Craig assigns Gunny a temporary assistant, Sgt. Tammi Rae Perkins, whom immediately goes about undercutting Gunny and trying to win the staff's attention.

It's the Marine Corps Anniversary and the General wants to make it a grand affair and tries to get someone noted to be the guest of honor and they're hoping it could be Dan Quayle or General Al Gray. It also coincides with Elizabeth's birthday who is down because she has no one to celebrate it with. But the Major and Polly get her a dress and ask to come to the party hoping she could meet one of the Marines' sons who will attend.And when she, the Major and Polly meet the General at where the party will be, they're stuck when a fog rises trapping them and keeping anyone else from coming.

Elizabeth has been wearing boxer shorts to school and is told that it's not allowed. Eventually she decides to write a paper on the injustice of it. The school is considering sanctions against her, so they ask for a parent to come in for a meeting. When Polly is unavailable, the Major offers to go but Elizabeth is worried cause he doesn't support her.

MacGillis wants to spend some more time with the family so they go camping. Things are far from what he hoped, but when the power goes out in the area, a chance for the bushmaster to experience something closer to real camping and bring them closer together, is had.

Elizabeth tries to talk MacGillis into letting her cater the private party General Craig is throwing for visiting Gen. Louis H. Wilson, but Polly and the Major are worried they will have to bail her out as usual.

Polly is out of town for a writing conference and the Major must pull double parenting duty. Holowachuk, out of loneliness, joins the Adopt-a-Marine program, but the woman whom adopts him turns out to be possessive.

In order to research for an article on group therapy she is doing, Polly takes along MacGillis to a group therapy weekend where in order to write the article, they are required to participate. Elizabeth holds a small party while the two are out of the house, which gets out of control.

The Major discovers the new young man on base Robin has a crush on, is being physically abused by his father.

Sgt. James gets in a bar fight and MacGillis must come up with a punishment. Casey wears MacGillis' father's Purple Heart out of the house without permission, and loses it. He wants to spank her, and Polly is against spanking.

Casey has been selected to test for an accelerated-learning school, and both Polly and MacGillis unknowingly put too much pressure on her to get in.

Budget cuts force MacGillis to reassess his career in the Marines, when it comes down to either a promotion -- which means moving elsewhere -- or retiring. MacGillis and Elizabeth go to a father/daughter dance.

Polly and MacGillis try to plan a special day for their first anniversary, but things keep getting in the way. The kids are surprised to find Gunny will be their babysitter.