There are very few assignments in the Army that involve coding on a regular basis. In fact, most people who spend 20 years in the Army as IT specialists end up

There are very few assignments in the Army that involve coding on a regular basis. In fact, most people who spend 20 years in the Army as IT specialists end up leaving without ever learning anything at all about programming that they didn't teach themselves in their spare time. Many of them don't know much at all about computers either. One of my IT instructors thought that anything involving a command line was part of a programming language called Unix. Before he became an instructor, he claimed to have held a full-time job as a software engineer, which involved nothing but generating reports from a SQL database. The majority of the IT work in the military is Help Desk and low-level system admin and network admin stuff. There are exceptions, and there are some interesting assignments, but they are rare and getting one is often a matter of luck. Military service can be rewarding, and its a good way to fund an education, but its definitely not for everyone.