It is a difficult situation. I know people who never left the wire in Bagram, who like to make a big deal of being in country, but by their own admission where never in danger. I know people who have never been in country, but have been in real pucker factor situations. I know someone who is a Vietnam Era Vet, but logged actual combat time as a DMZ pilot in Korea. People know about Vietnam though, so he just goes with saying he is a Vietnam Era Vet. The problem is trying to judge people based off of a shallow metric that tells nothing about what they actually did. What about people who where in combat, but ended up with a BCD, you know some of them go around touting their service, yet ignoring the fact that they where a problem, rather than an asset.