Nathan Phillips implied he was in Vietnam, by saying "when I come home, got spit on, called a baby killer"

He was in the reserves, not in the regular forces. I was in the reserves myself, it's not really something to brag about.

"Vietnam times" isn't really true either. By the year he joined up in late 1972, the Americans were leaving Vietnam.

Nathaniel Phillips enlisted under Nathaniel Richard Stanard, an “adopted” name, according to the DD-214, but his birth name was Nathaniel Phillips. He enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves, serving from 1972 to 1976. He never left the United States during his service in Lincoln, NE, and El Toro, CA, and was discharged as a private.

He went AWOL three times and never went overseas, including no travel to Vietnam. Phillips usually says he’s a Vietnam-era or Viet times veteran to mislead and boost his credentials. CNN claimed he said he is a Vietnam veteran, but it’s because he mumbled the word ‘times’, which is an unusual way to describe service unless one is exaggerating.

He was not honorably discharged, just ‘discharged’ as a private. It is not easy to get out as a private.

Phillips claimed to be a Recon Ranger but was actually a refrigerator mechanic. There is a world of difference between the two.