Dear Patches.

So "he is not the only one in this situation."  He has not only got his hand caught in the cookie jar, he has it caught in an out and out lie concerning a professional credential.  This is not some little mistake.  He proferred a lie to infer that he is an expert in a field in which he is not.  Once one lies about ones factual background, it leads to impeachment about everything that one has sworn or attested to.  He lied.  He has no credibility not based on inference but based on the concrete fact that his facts have been disproven.  This is the type of factual information that a judge and jury will give credence to when presented as such.  

Regards.

I find it funny that this person has the same name (not really that far fetched) and "service record" (a little harder to believe) as one Samuel W. Braddock, a former character of the Canadian TV Show Flashpoint. Samuel W was also in Special Forces (Canadian of course) and reached the rank of Master Corporal before he took an early leave. Some of this sound familiar? Is life imitating art or the other way around?