I have even money right now that this guy was not only NOT a SEAL, but was never even in Vietnam.
BTW. He home-schools 7 kids? His own kids? Seven of them still in school even though the guy would have to be in his mid 50s at the minimum to have spent as much time in Nam as he claims. Maybe a Tom Cat, instead of a Seal. If the AP hack won't ask the guy for his name on his service records, I guess he doesn't have the guts to ask him how the hell old he is either.
I'll bet the AP guy did find out his name and checked online to find out the guy wasn't a SEAL. Betcha this is a cover story.
It would not too hard. My older brother is 50 my youngest 1/2 sister is 16. My mother and father were divorced in '67 and he remarried a 18 year old. My father did 3 tours in Viet Nam and retired in '72. When he was 60 he still had 6 kids at home.