Are military members being Freemasons a dying breed?

I would definitely agree our numbers have dwindled. I am the youngest in my order by almost 37 years age difference.

I feel that people do not know exactly what freemasonry is. It is more then rings, hats and auto emblems. Yes there are certain groups that give Masons a bad name but every group has a few bad apples. I can say that freemasonry is never judging and seeing Every man on the level. To all the Mason bashers, if it was such a bad thing why is our highest enlisted board named after a Freemason? (Audie Murphy ) food for thought . 

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enrollment of service members down.” My grandfather was “full circle” in an
area know for extreme racism and prejudice. After I learned this I looked
deeper into becoming a Free and Accepted Mason. What I learned was a bunch of
knuckle heads acting a fool representing either Prince Hall or Scottish Right
and putting a bad taste in peoples mouth. What a lot of people do not see
anymore is the community work that this organization does to better said
community. This may be a reason that membership is lower in certain areas as
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Yes indeed they are a dying breed no matter if your military or not.

Short and sweet answer yes, they are less and less within the ranks. Back when I first came in during the early 80s, the prominence was very well known, and it also showed with the favoritism as well, I think that may be part of it diminishing as well, as the cleaning up of some of the old boy system of cliques and help a buddy out was forced out during the mid to late 90s, I think the FMs were pretty much a done deal for current military members. Now there are still some around, just not in the numbers they were 3 or more decades ago.

No. Masons are in every branch of the military today. I met several brothers while serving during my military career.

In our lodge we have a strong military group of men. We just added 6 new military members in the past 5 months.

As a Past Master who hails from Prince Hall Military Lodge #141(Yongsan Korea), I can tell you it's not what it used to be due to the quality of soldiers that have been coming in today.

Anyway, I remember when I became a Mason back in 2001, we always had a packed house. Nowadays, you have to damn near pay people to come to a lodge meeting. It lost some shine due to the troublemakers we had coming in to our beloved order. I knew CSMs, senior officers, and GO's who are on the square but they would never come out because of the bad seeds we had in the ranks.

I was once told by my GM in Oklahoma there was nothing wrong with asking a man who a brother knows to be upright and morally sound if he was interested in joining the order.

There is so many comments on this subject I haven't read them all, honestly. However it is a family tradition for me with the men in my family. I didn't join the fraternity until I was out of the service. As a "traveling man" that's all I discuss about it. To be one ask one.

I have just spent a little while reading response after response and I am impressed. I am a Mason and an Active Duty Military Member and have been for a long time. I have to say I have seen the participation fall in my years. My only answer is because We will not go looking for you. 2B1 Ask1. The majority of this generation of now wants alot more handed to them. Think how this generation is raised, 12th place trophies, everyone passes, and spoon feed all the information they need, to just get by and most are fine with that. I belive in making good men better, and try to do this day in and day out for my troops, friends and anyone I meet. The biggest problem is they don't want to be better, average is good enough. This is the main reason of the decline. Of course this is all in my own opinion.