You are aware that, even if your tax money went to fund this scholarship, it still went to fund the military as well right? This isn't an either/or kind of thing. Now don't get me wrong, I do feel that we could cut some fat when it comes to military spending, but I also realize how important it is to have a strong military. Now when I say a strong military I'm not advocating for millions of dollars being spent trying to develop some fucking hover-tank, or other ridiculously useless shit like that.
I also feel that providing future health care and retirement (which you have to have served for 20 years to get) to our soldiers is a good thing. Paying a lifetime of disability to fucks who sneak into the military with a preexisting condition that wasn't caught by military doctors, and thereby basically get "expelled" from duty, but still get our money, is however a bad thing. I didn't say paying disability is a bad thing, just in that case.
And lastly, it is indeed messed up that the government would rather lose 5 soldiers than one drone. I can't be positive that's the way they feel, because off the top of my head I can't think of hearing about that anywhere else, but I strongly believe it to be the truth. People want to say you can't put a value on human life, but every day the government and economists are able to do that very thing.
