Survey Finds Only 1 in 3 Military Families Would Recommend Service

United States Marine Corps (USMC) recruits from Lima Company, the first gender integrated training class in San Diego, receiving a safety briefing before body boxing during The Crucible, the final part of phase three of recruit training before officially becoming U.S. Marines at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, Calif., on April 21, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Less than a third of U.S. military families would recommend others join the military and embrace their lifestyle, according to a new survey by Blue Star Families.

Among its new findings, Blue Star Families’ “2023 Military Family Lifestyle Survey” revealed that 32 percent of respondents would recommend military service. That figure is down from 55 percent of respondents who said they would recommend military service in the organization’s 2016 survey.