Does anyone have any experience working as a data scientist/MLE in the military? I'm just curious. I am thinking of setting up a sit down meeting with an Army recruiter, as I have been in contact about one with the possibility of a career in the Army after graduation (one cold called me and asked me for my interest, I picked up the phone cus why not, I figured more info cant hurt?) He asked me about my academic background (I am a college senior graduating in May, with my B.S. in business analytics with minors in math and applied stats) and he said I could ask the recruiter questions about possible careers in the Army with my career goals of working in DS.

Has anyone here had this experience? Anything to attest to? If I join, will I even be working with big data or is this all just a ploy to get me to enlist? I never considered the military as a career path but there's definitely the need for our skillset there.

Edit: thanks for the replies everyone! I’m gonna speak to the recruiter again in two weeks to see what the deal is. I’ve been applying to private contractors too, so we’ll see what happens