My brother was career Air Force. Toward the end of his career he spent some time as a recruiter. He didn’t like to see kids who wanted to sign up because they saw the military as a way to pay for college. Can you get a bachelor’s and/or a master’s with little to no debt and save up for a house? Sure. But the reality is that you’re signing up for a dangerous job and you might not live long enough to get any of those things. The people he wanted to enlist were the ones who viewed the military as a career, not a scholarship service.