Typical underachiever syndrome. I see it every day. Fat f***s, nerdy kids, and chickensh*ts with stories to tell and false claims of medals and service. It should be a UCMJ Article that any veteran can beatdown such a person.
I’ve got a good friend who is a decorated vet of OIF, however he also greatly exaggerates his service. For example he claims he was in Desert Storm - he wasn’t. He claims he went to SERE school - he didn’t. Very odd as he has no reason to make this stuff up. The things he actually did are hooah enough.