Curtis recalls enlisting in the Army and her early days in boot camp. She describes her various tours of duty including preparing ships to transport troops overseas from bases in the San Francisco area and various other administrative assignments in Italy Germany and locations in the U.S. including Valley Forge Army Hospital Aberdeen Proving Grounds the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center. Along with describing her Army duties she provides a perspective of the personal life and experiences that her assignments in different parts of the world afforded her.