Today’s Soldier: Assessing the Needs of Soldiers and Their Families

This report describes results of a unique survey approach to understanding the most-pressing problems that soldiers and their families face, the needs those problems generate, soldiers’ use of Army and non-Army resources to address their needs, and barriers to using those resources. It also reports soldiers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of the resources used and the implications of unmet needs for soldiers’ attitudes toward military service.