Fewer Military Families Would Recommend Uniformed Service, Survey Finds – By Caitlin M. Kenney (Defense One) / July 14, 2022
The Military Family Advisory Network poll may have warning signs for recruiters.
Fewer military families would recommend military life to those interested in serving, saying the hardships outweigh the pay and benefits, according to a report released Thursday.
“When we’re going through this report and seeing some of the findings and the reality that a lot of families are having a hard time making ends meet, it’s not all that startling to see that there will be a decline here,” said Shannon Razsadin, president and executive director of the Military Family Advisory Network, an organization that provides resources and conducts research on issues affecting military families. “But what I was really surprised by was, you know, that it was as big of a decline as it is.”
The group’s 2021 Military Family Support Programming Survey found that 62.9 percent of military and veteran families would recommend military life, down from 74.5 percent in 2019.
