Never miss a chance to throw a dig at a former military even if it was forty years ago.
Every. Damned. Chance. They. Get.
Maybe so, but the media may be adding that item because the perp was a loony-tune who apparently told his co-workers all kinds of conflicting stories about serving in the Army, the Marines, doing tours in Vietnam, etc. The statement about the Coast Guard may be there to provide a definitive answer to some questions that had been swirling around the story yesterday.