Documents Audrey Ann Fisher's twenty-seven year career in the military, with an emphasis on attitudes and changes in the Women's Army Corps and the U.S. Army. Fisher discusses her childhood in Oregon and Washington; her social life after high school, including socializing with men from a navy base; her reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; prejudice against Indians and Japanese; her employment with Pacific Telephone and Telegraph and the Bell System, and choosing between the army and the air force. " Fisher primarily talks about her military service, discussing all twenty-seven years of her career in detail. Topics include basic training, including cold showers and KP duty; her assigment to the clerk typist school; teaching men and women at Camp Breckinridge in the late 1940s; recruiting strategies; OCS instruction in stewardship, fraternization, and army structure; work in the adjutant general's office in San Antonio and Fort Benning; assignment to the officers club at Fort Lawton, Washington; changes when men on the bases went to Korea in the early 1950s; the stigma against returning Korean prisoners of war; volunteering to serve in Korea to advance her career; commanding WAc units at Fort McClellan, Oakland Army Base, and Fort Jackson; isolation from civilians; mentoring new recruits; career course instruction, including logistics and a staff study; anxiety about the Cuban missile crisis; earning a college degree; conflict and danger in Vietnam; and the United States' mistakes and ambivalence in Vietnam; her personnel work at Fort Riley and the Pentagon; and the U.S. Army War College. " Fisher also comments on issues related to women in the military. She talks about having to take the initiative to advance her career; racial integration in the army; being an opinionated woman in the army; women in combat positions; changing military policies; career paths for women in the military; integrating the WAC into the regular army; her advice to women interested in a military career; femininity in the military; and the advantages of her military service.