The purpose of this study is to examine military personnel's welfare needs and the current status of barracks life counselors management, to discover the meaning in the experiences of barracks life counselors who currently perform limited roles in military social welfare, and finally to explore practical solutions for military social welfare programs and policy alternatives that can provide integrated military social welfare services. Both quantitative and qualitative studies were conducted for this purpose. For the present study, from June to July of 2012, a survey was conducted with roughly 300 members of the armed forces and 8 barracks life counselors were interviewed, leading to the following results. The study finds that counseling and welfare experts, who can offer professional responses to both personal and professional needs via counseling, case managing and securing of external resources, should be made available. The study also analyzes the challenges and practical limitations that barracks life counselors face in performing social welfare tasks, thereby laying down an empirical foundation for a military social worker system that can provide efficient welfare services. Accordingly, improvements are to be sought in the selection and management of barracks life counselors in the following areas: assignment of military social workers; establishment of support system customized for each recipient group; localized operation of military welfare centers; and the realization of independent military social service programs such as the MMAA(Military Mutual Aid Association).