About 580,000 service members have begun receiving emails or letters inviting them to participate in the first RAND Military Workplace Study, Defense Department officials said.
Active and reserve component members in all military branches and the Coast Guard are being invited to participate.
“The survey is unprecedented in its scale and will influence policies that affect everyone in the services,” defense officials said.
The survey is voluntary and confidential. No one at the Defense Department will ever see how an individual service member responds, officials stressed.
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