I feel your pain, I enlisted in July 1975, served eleven years,got booted out without so much as a thank you for serving as part of a budget cut, only to find out that by the time I could get into a decent college any benefits I was due towards it would run out.
Our experience is a main reason that when people tell me that they're confident that our Government will make good on their Social Security - and that they're counting on it to survive during retirement, I can only think; "well good luck"