C’mon - - no way does Ted make a crazy, easily refutable claim that he was a Marine unless he was one.
I don’t think he would either. Nugent is a gun nut, he loves guns, he feels badly for avoiding the draft and because of that wants to do all he can for our military. He and Toby Keith were in Fallujah with the 1st Marines, he admires them and was just trying to throw them some props. When he says, “what the Marines taught me”, I believe that is all he was doing was giving a shout out to the 1st. For him to admit he was a draft dodger and felt guilty about it in an interview and then intentionally make such a claim would be beyond stupid. Nugent is crazy, but he isn’t stupid. :)
I would say this has more to do with what he called Obama and Hitlery than anything.