False claims of national service are often used for financial fraud in various ways, ie, to defraud money or obtain governement jobs, or of course to get elected. Those instances should be pursued in court and punished to the max- easiest where money changes hands. Of course prosecution often does occur in any case but the ones involving stolen valour could be given particular vigour. That would at least help protect real veterans (and the other victims) and leave only congenital liars and nut jobs parading around like sad losers, gaining nothing.