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As far as secret identities go, maybe they used them but the region has been pacified for 15 - 20 years and I don't think potential "friends" would worry about one lowly ranked US soldier among thousands that were in theatre.  The importance of his own mission might seem be slightly overstated but I'm sure it's reasonably accurate.

I drank beer in the Legion with a supposed intelligence person in the peacetime Canadian Army.  Apparently the gave him medals for his heroic actions but then immediately took them back because the mission in Vietnam was secret.  Now that's BS.  He also recited the plot of "Navy Seals" with himself as a central character.  As UN observers in Vietnam, Canada spied for the US but took no part in the war.

Slightly overstated?
There was this comedian on a site who loved to call himself "nuclear and robotics engineer" operating nuclear submarines...
First, one of his many aliases pointed to a community college guy still inching towards an Associate Degree, and it wasn't nuclear physics, either.
Robotics engineer?
I am sure the dope couldn't fight his way out of a lego robotics kit.
Now I know people who served in army bases with nuclear installations...as cooks, drivers etc...
Now if he said he was just an ordinary guy in uniform taking out the garbage, but he claims he was a "Special Agent investigating counterintelligence matters critical to the success of the US Southern Commands Mission in Central America".

Sounds like Gollin or Bear writing their new curricula...

I recall an episode of LEAVE IT TO BEAVER when the child manufactures a past of war hero for his father to share with his class, but is in the end scolded and told that just because his father served in an office in the army, doesn't mean he was a lesser man.
These adults aren't evidently past the psychological development stage of 8yo Beaver.

Now it seems the man got an upscale place as director of a university...good for him. None is going to take that away, but stupid attitudes only detract from whatever legitimate they may have achieved.