Colonel Joan Burton is a fictitious character from the television series Lifetime Army Wives, portrayed by Wendy Davis.
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Fictional biography
Joan is a native of the South Side project, Chicago. He once stated that his classmates in high school were all doing drugs or getting pregnant. In Season 6, he told Roland that he was experimenting with marijuana in high school and one of his best friends moved into heroin and eventually died of an overdose. A coach at his school sees his athletic potential and the track becomes his outlet and the way out of his poor background. He attended Army ROTC scholarship and joined the army.
Joan is married to Dr. Roland Burton (Sterling K. Brown), which makes Roland a single "Army Husband" among the main characters. Upon return from placement in Season 1, Joan struggled with PTSD resulting from her experience when deployed. Her relationship with Roland suffered, and she had a one-night stand with visiting reporters because of her feelings of alienation and dissatisfaction. She confessed to Joan when she returned from abroad, leading the discussion about the divorce. But the two men reconciled after he announced that he was pregnant and an explosion at Hump Bar.
Season 2 deals with Joan's pregnancy, and her daughter, Sara Elizabeth, born at the end of the Season. Sara Elizabeth celebrates her first birthday in Season 4. Sara Elizabeth's baptist godfather is Claudia Joy and General Michael Holden. He and Roland adopted David in Season 5 and his adoption was completed at the 6th season premiere.
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Careers
In the pilot episode, Joan was introduced as a lieutenant colonel who returned from Afghanistan after almost two years. His career nearly ended with Article 15 after the decision he made caused one of his soldiers with PTSD to detain her husband Roland and Claudia Joy Holden as hostages. He considered retirement to avoid a military court and his career ended in disgrace, but Colonel Michael Holden changed his mind when he voluntarily broke away from soldiers for a month seeking treatment at a VA clinic in Vermont for his PTSD. Throughout the first season, he struggled to cope with the events that occurred when he was deployed, eventually leaving for the treatment facility. During the Season 1 finals, she finds herself pregnant.
The branch badge on his service uniform indicated that he was an intelligence officer. He previously served as Michael's G-2 (When the postal commander Brigadier General Baker suffered a brain aneurysm, Michael was promoted to brigadier general and made a postal commander.He offered his position as his executive officer (ie second commander), which he received During this time, he hid her pregnancy when deciding whether or not to keep the baby. She has a change of heart when in the clinic to terminate her pregnancy and confess to Roland that thoughts about her and how she will make big Dad encourages her to change her mind about babysitting her baby When she finally confesses that she pregnant, General Holden hired LTC Evan Connor to cover him while he was on maternity leave Connor tried to weaken him with every opportunity and even use SPC Trevor LeBlanc, who worked as his assistant while recovering from his injury, to return to him indirectly.
At the end of season 2, "Last Minute Changes," General Holden has received the transfer. His successor, General Rutledge, was an old friend with Connor. He told Joan that Connor would replace him as deputy garrison commander and he would be deployed to Iraq. In the first episode of Season 3, she was told that she would go with her new unit in three months.
While waiting for the placement, Joan continues to get involved with Connor. General Holden received promotion and was transferred back to the post as division commander. General Rutledge was transferred to the Pentagon while Connor remained in the post. After settling back, Holden asks Joan to take his assistant position. However, he refused, having made the decision that his place served as brigade commander in Iraq. He sees himself as a combat officer. Holden was surprised by his decision but also admired him.
In the episode "Post and Prejudice" Connor pitted against Joan in an annual war game and was well defeated even though he used one of his staff to leak information to his side. At the end of the episode Connor was transferred to a job at the logistics desk at the Pentagon at General Holden's request.
Joan's decision to deploy even though the work at the post is available caused a lot of tension with Roland, but eventually she came to accept her career options. He spread late in Season 3.
In the Season 3 finals, he suffered an eye injury after his convoy was attacked and he was hit by shrapnel when an RPG struck nearby. He recovered well after surgery in Germany and planned to return to his unit. However, General Holden called to say he had nominated him for a prestigious temporary task with a task force rebuilding schools in Iraq. This is not a battlefield command, but it is an important task that is important and will be good for his career. Upon arrival he found the project behind schedule and over budget and employed diplomacy and organizational skills to work with local contractors and get it all back on track. There were some complications, but eventually he hired a new contractor and completed the project successfully. When the division was withdrawn, he returned to Fort Marshall to await the next combat troop deployment.
Upon returning to Fort Marshall in Season 4, Roland sees a minor deviation in his function, such as putting his clothes in the wrong cupboard and losing his balance. Eventually he was diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury possibly from an earlier RPG attack. He was placed on a healing leave and did not divide the division.
In the premiere of Season 5 he was informed of his promotion to the rank of colonel and also received an additional task of the garrison commander.
At the end of the series, he made the decision to retire from the military.
Awards and decorations
The following are medals and service awards fictitiously imposed by Colonel Burton.
Reception
Revisiting the second season of the show, Patrick Luce of Monsters and Critics enjoys Joan's pregnancy storyline, writes: "The character of Davis is a very professional military so golden comics to see through the changes that come with pregnancy, and after experiencing a baby. can not laugh at seeing Roland and Joan who are sleep-deprived trying to function as before they had a baby. Working Mother praised the characters in the 2010 article, defining the character as a mother who works balancing a military career with marriage and newborn , and added, "He is against hope and being the first African American lieutenant colonel of Fort Marshall."
Wendy Davis has also received three NAACP Image Award nominations for her role as Joan Burton under the category "Best Actress in Drama Series" in 2008, 2009 and 2011.
References
External links
- Joan Burton at Lifetime
- Joan Burton in IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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