Just coming back to the point of the military.
Joining the military is an excellent route - if what you want to spend at-least a major part of your career in uniform working on military aeroplanes (and why not, many people have had no regrets about such a career route).
But, don't do it as a route to a civil career - do it because a job in uniform or with military aircraft is what you want, no other reason.
Also echoing TURIN's point: few engineers manage to avoid a lot of written communications during their career: as well as the technical work which is our bread and butter. Your written English will be important: so capital "I", "an" before a vowel, don't separate sentence clauses with commas... Sadly modern school education is shockingly bad in this regard so to some extent you can blame your school teachers, but ultimately an employer doesn't care about that and you need to get your written English sorted out.
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