Karen L. Chin discusses her family life, education, teaching middle school art classes, joining the military, experience in the military, changes in the military, leaving the military, and how she was impacted in the military. Chin talks about her experience with outranking men and discrimination in the military, and her experience with 9/11. She also discussed what the hardest thing to do physically, as well as what the most rewarding thing in the military was. She talked about her impression of the military leadership and her spatial awareness and how different her life was because of her time in the military. Karen L. Chin finishes discussing her reasoning as to why she would discourage women going into the Army, what she wishes civilians to know about the military, and what patriotism means to her.