Ending Military career to start my life! (Help :D)

[dfrecore]

My vote: do CLEP and DSST exams while they're free for you (as someone currently serving in the military). Finish up with a few months of Study.com, Sophia, Saylor - whatever you need. Enroll at UMPI to get your bachelor's degree. You might be able to do this before you even got out of the military. Pay cash for all of this.

Then, when you come out, enroll in a school for your master's, and use your GI bill to pay for that. Work FT or PT, depending (my kids both work FT, one goes to college FT, the other PT). I'm going to suggest FT school to get that done as quickly as possible so you can start on your career as soon as possible. If that means working PT, that's fine. But if you can work FT, that's always good too.

Forgot to mention; I would not spend another second working on your associates degree. It's a waste of time when you really need to get moving on your bachelor's degree.