“The Perception of Military Careers in College Students” is a topic that not too many people have studied, nor have many people questioned. A topic that is fairly unanswered and very intriguing to me, is one reason why I chose to write about it. Another reason is that I have recently became an Active Duty member in the United States Coast Guard; which is one of the five branches of the United States Armed Forces. When conversing with my friends, I sometimes ask them “Would you join a branch of the military?” Many times they reply “No, I would never join the military.” Receiving the same feedback from numerous individuals leads me to believe that the perception of the military is skewed. My next question would be “Why?” This simple, yet open-ended
