Dr.Roland Burton

Personal Life
Roland is married to Colonel Joan Burton (Wendy Davis). As such, he is the lone "Army husband" among the main characters, which include four Army wives. While he and Joan are at odds in Season 1, he has a one-night stand with a visiting reporter. He confesses to Joan when she returns from from a PTSD treatment center, leading to some anger-filled moments, but she forgives him after a few episodes.

Roland and Joan have a daughter, Sara Elizabeth, who was born at the end of Season 2 and celebrates her first birthday in Season 4. Sara Elizabeth's godparents are Claudia Joy and Genaral Micheal Holden

Career
In the first season, Roland is primarily a "house-husband," dealing with the on and off deployments of his wife, who is a major in the Army and leads a combat unit in Afghanistan. In Season 2, Joan returns home to work for General Holden, while Roland puts his previous education and experience in psychiatry to use as a counselor for the high school on the Fort Marshall base. He loses that job due to what is later revealed to be unfair circumstances, and goes to work for a man named Terence Price, joining him in a private counseling practice. At the end of Season 3, Terence is forced to flee due to an incident in the past (which caused him to change his identity), and Roland assumes the practice himself.

Joan, meanwhile, has been promoted to Lt. Colonel, and deploys to Iraq at the end of Season 3. Roland is forced to juggle career and home life, much as the Army wives are doing, as the couple's daughter turns one year old.

More About Roland
A brilliant psychiatrist and loving husband, Roland chose to forgo a lucrative private practice to spend his life with Lieutenant Colonel Joan Burton, a dedicated military woman. But he’s tried to still remain focus on having a career. He’s worked as a top doctor at Fort Marshall's Mercer Army Medical Center, as well as serving as a substitute teacher (and unofficially as a guidance counselor) for the school on post.

But everything has changed for Roland recently. He’s now ready to put his ambitions aside again, only this time it’s not for his wife, but for his new daughter, Sarah Elizabeth. Roland makes the decision to be a stay-at-home dad to raise his child. But things may be even harder than he anticipated, dealing with wife Joan's issues with PTSD.