Knock out a degree in Liberal Arts or General Studies from an accredited school like TESC, COSC, or Excelsior that specializes in employed adult learners with life experience.

With your military training you have a lot of ACE evaluated credit that would transfer to one of their generic degree plans. You can knock out your gen-ed credits through CLEP and DSST which are offered at the education center on base.

I know it's hard for guy especially in a combat arms job + multiple deployments to sit down and take actual classes. It would take 10+ years to knock out a traditional degree plan that way. You're in a time crunch, so take a look at this option in order to quickly check this block, which is really the only thing that you're looking to do at this point. A mechanical engineering or chemistry degree probably isn't what you're looking for anyways.

I was able to transfer about 30 credits from military training, about 15 from my previous time at community college, and the rest from CLEP, DSST, etc. Took me about 6 months and about $3,000 in enrollment, transcription and graduation fees.

-Thomas Edison State College grad

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