Army STARRS New Soldier Study (NSS): The First Days of Service
The New Soldier Study (NSS) is one of five main parts of the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS). Data from the NSS component help the research team learn more about the men and women who chose to enter the military
as they begin their Army careers. To capture this information, soldiers were asked, in their first hours of initial entry training, to consider volunteering for Army STARRS. Data collection took place at three training installations and began in February 2011. By the time the data collection phase ended in November 2012, more than 55,000 soldiers had volunteered for the study.