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I don't see how he could have entered the service in 1976 and claimed to have been SF in Vietnam. He would have also been 15 when the war ended for U.S. ground troops.
IMHO, the guy was a poser.
The DD214 and a SWCS records check would tell for sure, but I suspect at the very best, he might have been peacetime SF support.
On the other hand, the family is not going to want to hear that in the middle of their bereavement, and he will no longer be profiting from the claim, so I would say to let it be.
TR
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