I don’t look down on people who don’t have a college degree. There are people with useful skills that never went into a university.
Oh hell yes. That's one thing that's great about the military. Even if you go in with a big head because you have a college degree, you will
very quickly learn the mountain of things you don't know, and how there are so many guys without that education who know so much more than you do. You also learn that education and intelligence are two very different things.
But just as it is bad to look down on people because they have less formal education, it is equally bad to look down on people just because they have more. And unfortunately, there are both kinds of people down there who look down on others for those reasons.