在这场争论中，有65名护士的个人故事，他们的声音保留了下来，他们的话语常常充满了情感，对他们所看到的、忍受的和批评的东西深陷痛苦之中，并被仔细地保留了下来。其中许多故事是第一次讲述的，特别是最近的运动、维持和平行动、救灾和人道主义任务。这些人和他们之前的人一样，经常在最原始的条件下工作，就像一位护士所说的那样，“只需要TLC和其他一些”。
澳大利亚军队护士的典型做法是“心甘情愿地投入战斗”，通常没有什么警告，但总是带着勇气、决心和强烈的幽默感。自第一批勇敢的布尔战争护士出发以来的大约一百年里，澳大利亚陆军护士已经建立了一个引以为傲和令人羡慕的声誉。尽管极度贫困、处境危险、缺乏最基本的医疗设备，他们仍以提供优质医疗服务的决心而闻名。如果这是他们在面对这样的逆境时所能树立的声誉，那么在接下来的一百年里，我们有很多可以期待的。
自愿加入这场斗争为读者提供了一个难得的机会，让他们亲身体验从1899年早期到现代的军队护士的生活，体验伴随着这一百多年的社会巨大变化。
Willingly into the Frey: One hundred years of Australian Army Nursing
Willingly into the Fray comprises the personal stories of sixty-five individual nurses, their voices preserved and their words, often fraught with emotion and mired in distress at what they have seen, endured and railed against, carefully retained. Many of these stories are told for the first time, particularly those of the recent campaigns, peacekeeping operations, disaster relief and humanitarian missions. These are men and women who, like those before them, often worked in the most primitive conditions, as one nurse remarked tellingly, ‘with TLC and little more’.
It is typical of Australian Army nurses to proceed ‘willingly into the fray’, often with little warning, but always with courage, determination and a strong sense of humour. In the hundred or so years since the first intrepid Boer War nurses set out, Australian Army nurses have forged a proud and enviable reputation. They are justifiably renowned for their determination to provide quality medical care despite extreme privation, perilous circumstances, and a lack of the most rudimentary medical equipment. If this is the reputation they can forge in the face of such adversity, then we have much to look forward to over the next one hundred years.
Willingly into the Fray provides a rare opportunity for the reader, to take a personal journey through the lives of Army nurses from the early days of 1899 to modern times, and to experience the vast changes in society that accompanied those hundred or so years.
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