Primarily documents Doris Onita Melvin's career with the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) during the Korean and Vietnam wars, as well as her relationship with friend Cecelia Ingram. Melvin details her early nurse training at McCain Hospital in Hoke County, North Carolina. She discusses her reasoning for joining the ANC over the WAC (Women's Army Corps) and her basic training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. She mentions her time at Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Fort Myers, Florida; and Fort Bragg, North Carolina; as well as her time stationed abroad in Germany and Japan. Other service topics include barracks life; ANC work ethics; military segregation and desegregation; and the WAC song "Duty". " Personal topics include: Life during the Depression; experiences with Jim Crow segregation; the role of women in contemporary service; her heroes during her service; benefits of her service; her relationship with Cecelia Ingram; and Ingram's husband, also a veteran.