Today's Soldier: Assessing the Needs of Soldiers and Their Families
Abstract
This document reports results from a research project entitled, "Assessing the Needs of Soldiers and Their Families." The purpose of the project was to identify the most-pressing problems that soldiers and their families face, the needs associated with those problems, and how soldiers use Army and non-Army resources to attempt to meet those needs. The results inform how the Army can best meet the most-pressing unmet needs, whether through its own support services or by fostering partnerships with communities and other non-Army organizations. This report documents the methods we used to develop a 2014 online survey of U.S. soldiers, along with the survey results. The findings should interest policymakers, program managers, and scholars interested in service members' quality of life, their health and well-being, military families, service utilization, and military retention and readiness. This research was sponsored by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, and by the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management. It was conducted in RAND Arroyo Center's Personnel, Training, and Health program. RAND Arroyo Center, part of the RAND Corporation, is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the United States Army. The Project Unique Identification Code (PUIC) for the project that produced this document is HQD136804.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1085589
Entities
People
- Carra S. Sims
- Emily K. Chen
- Laura L. Miller
- Thomas E Trail
Organizations
- RAND Corporation