Primarily documents Jane Beetham Jones's service from 1952 to 1980 with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve for twenty-eight years and her military and civilian career in public information and journalism. Jones discusses her high education and work at the Detroit News. She then discusses her twenty-year career in the Marine Corps Reserve. Notable topics include why Jones chose the Marine Corps; people's response to her service; waiting in Detroit until they had enough women for a platoon; training at Camp Lejeune instead of Parris Island during summers; working in the Public Information Office rather than administration; meeting her husband; writing articles for newsletters and newspapers; uniforms; social life and drinking off the base; living in barracks from World War II; food; and being involved in an all-service exercise. " Jones also notes the various places that she was stationed during the course of her career and talks briefly about her duties in the Public Information Office; teaching military history while stationed at Quantico, Virginia; and being sent down to St. Louis without any arrangements having been made. " Jones discusses the perception of women in the military; positions women were limited to while she was in the reserves; difficulties because her husband was also in the reserve; several difficult incidents with Marines who did not care for the women; changes in the Marine Corps during the course of her service; and women in combat positions.