Jeff assumes Company Command in Hawaii and returns to Iraq for a third and fourth tour.

Jeff is accepted for an Olmsted Scholarship and is sent to Western China, where he learns his family history in the region and builds his own.

Jeff returns to the United States for jobs and opportunities in Kansas with Army and in California with Marines before taking Battalion Command in Georgia.

Jeff returns overseas as the role of fires in Eastern Europe increases.

This is the second half of his story.