Eliciting survey responses from cadets proved difficult due to cadet's personal values, institutional pressures, prevailing current events, and/or institutional pressures. Due to this the researcher expanded the scope of the study to include interviews, but failed to yield better response rates. Consequently, data collected from surveys and interviews are non-generalizable as the sample size was too small to draw statistically significant connections between media consumption habits, perceptions, and service interests. Nevertheless, a close analysis of the survey and interview data is suggestive and raises questions for future research. For example, survey and interview respondents indicated their perception of some negative bias in war and conflict reporting, active engagement with war and conflict media, and a strong tendency to favor digital sources (as opposed to legacy media) for war and conflict news information. This research then, despite its limitations, suggests a useful model for larger-scale data collection and a jumping-off point for related future research including but not limited to: understanding and improving the military/press relationship, examinations of source bias and perceptions of journalistic objectivity, comparative studies of elite versus non-elite sources, and potential gender differences in the consumption habits, perceptions, and service interests of female versus male ROTC cadets. Continued research into these topics may yield pertinent information for improving the military/press relationship, ROTC and military recruitment strategies, and the need for potential changes to ROTC policies and cadet training measures.