Pontius,
Maybe he was actually what he claimed to be, he was just bad at it!
There is a guy that lives above me in the dorm who talks about how his dad compleated basic training "three weeks early," and spent the time between his compleation of basic and graduation training with SF (never anymore specific than that). He appearently did very well and was asked to join, but said he had to think about it, which meant no. My answer was simply: "That's nice."
Kyle