You probably already know this. However, I will point out that the US military, and probably just about any competent military, has a significant need for people with a university education.
As one example there are a variety of mathematics and computer science tasks that the military needs help with. Similarly, the problem of maintaining logistics networks is something that is very interesting to large companies, but is also interesting to the military. Some of the associated mathematics is quite interesting and definitely not easy to solve in an optimal way. There are huge numbers of other ways that a university education can be helpful to our armed services.