This military psychiatric documentary examines combat stress and its treatment among soldiers. In command tents, men in helmets and jackets write in logs and notebooks, smoke cigarettes, and confer, while soldiers eat from mess containers and train in the field, running, taking cover, and loading trucks. Officers and doctors are interviewed at desks, and clinical scenes depict psychiatric care: a doctor prepares and administers an injection with a syringe as a patient winces, and men kneel over an unconscious soldier who gasps and is helped to a sitting position. The film moves to a military hospital, where trucks pass the building, soldiers roll bunk covers and read, nurses assist, and a uniformed doctor examines and clamps a patient's leg, weighs a shirtless man on a medical scale, and works on mechanical rehabilitation devices. Rehabilitation and occupational therapy are shown through art, woodworking, lathe operation, basketball, boxing, catch, and gymnastic backflips. Induction and mobilization footage follows, with men enlisting, soldiers marching in formation, trucks of troops, and an explosion in the field. The film ends with industrial and civilian labor montages, a welder, typist, drill press, chemist, and a man with a prosthetic eye, closing on the Statue of Liberty.