Riley and Al (Adhir Kalyan) meet up with a couple friends from their old Marine unit to do a "food crawl" - hitting all the restaurants that offer free food to veterans on Veterans Day. Riley listens to his buddies talk about how they're each dealing with post-Marine life.
Meanwhile Al also plays double duty as chaperon when Riley's daughter, Hazel (Farrah Mackenize) hangs out with a boy.
In her best performance in the series to date, Lizzie (Elizabeth Alderfer) rips open a box of belongings as she goes down memory lane with her father (Dean Norris) at her side reflecting on her late husband, a Marine lost in Afghanistan. Her dad gently tells her that she can deal with her grief at her own pace in her own way. By the time a favorite song begins to play at restaurant, Alderfer's face is a turbulent contortion of all that they've lost.
USofAL is at its best when it's centered on emotional truths.