He is legally entitled to call himself a SEAL, but he is still misleading.
I bet that doesn’t clear it up much does it?
He wasn’t a SEAL during his time in service, after becoming a UDT man he did not go into SEAL training, and that is why he was UDT and not a SEAL, he never served as a SEAL, or with the SEALs.
Since he is a celebrity who has made a point to misleadingly exploit being a SEAL (with asterisk) and falsely claimed stolen valor as a SEAL in Vietnam “hunting men”, when he actually never saw combat, but instead was in the Philippines, he is a sleazy guy.
Finally, an apt description. Thanks.