Wearing both a Korean service and Vietnam service ribbon, with a look of early to mid 40’s about him?
Begging to be busted.
Everyone wants to be a hero.
Even actual active duty service members are not immune to the temptation of adding some extra ribbons to their fruit salad.
The most common one I remember was the same thing that Adm. Boorda got called on, and which apparently prompted his suicide — adding Combat “V” devices to regular brownie point medals.
During my last hitch in the Navy a CPO got busted for that. It was his bad luck that he ran into a guy who remembered him from Nam and knew he was never any closer to the action than the local bars.
Chicken feed compared to what this story’s scumbag is doing, but still pretty lame.