Know you're being facetious, but...
Yup, the same guy who supposedly took fire in Cambodia on Christmas - bwahahaha. The same guy who requested safe off-shore swift boat duty (for base comforts versus haze gray and under way), until said boats were re-assigned up river into the "sh*t", much to Kerry's chagrin.
The same guy who got his 3 Purple Hearts from scratches to bug out of VN (within 6 months?), one of which he put in himself. The same guy who a following swift boat 50 cal gunner (best viewpoint on said boat) said he turned his boat and ran, leaving the other two boats in the midst of a cross-fire.
The same guy who threw his medals over the fence at the WH and testified against his shipmates and other forces in VN. Yes, the very same POS.
Reality bites -- hadn't heard that one. So he tried to fox the detailers and find a cushy groove that would allow him to wait out the war sucking down brews on an anchored LST and then say, years later on the stump, "I served in-country, I'm a 'Nam veteran" -- and they sent him up the river into the Delta? Ex-cellent.
The same guy who threw his medals over the fence at the WH ....
Additional detail, FRiend -- they weren't his medals. He talked another guy out of his medals and threw those over the fence. He kept his. Only now he can't show them, he doesn't dare.