A "war hero" doesn't finished 894th out of 899 and still get stationed at a Navy champagne unit and promoted ahead of all but two of his 898 other classmates.
A "war hero" doesn't crash five U.S. Navy jets out of sheer incompetence and ineptitude, including two during non-combat training sessions.
A "war hero" doesn't get written up on drunk-and-disorderly, fraternization, disobeying orders, and insubordination charges more than two dozen times in less than three years and never once get punished for it.
A "war hero" doesn't get promoted to squadron commander of the air field named after his own grandfather immediately after crashing his third airplane.
A "war hero" doesn't get 134 sailors killed by launching a bomb while the jet he hadn't crashed yet was parked onboard an aircraft carrier.
A "war hero" doesn't trade classified military information and Navy secrets in exchange for pampered treatment and then claim he was tortured daily when there's not only no physical evidence to support the claim, but several eye-witnesses who say nobody was tortured daily.
A "war hero" doesn't have all the military records that cover his time in Vietnam and all disciplinary actions against him censored and sealed "as a matter of national security."
A "war hero" doesn't get 28 medals awarded all after-the-fact "for bravery" for no other reason than being shot down and captured and then go on a celebrity public relations tour because he's the son of two acclaimed Navy admirals.
A "war hero" doesn't repeatedly cheat on the wife who's back in the states waiting for him, and then cheat on her more when he returns to the states, and then divorce and abandon her when she's disabled in a horrific car accident because he wants to marry into the money of his drunken, drug-addict girlfriend's family.
A "war hero" doesn't systematically vote against every single pay and benefit increase for military and veterans throughout his entire political career, all the while claiming to be "the soldier's Congressman," and then take credit for the passage of a G.I. benefits bill he that voted AGAINST.
A "war hero" doesn't have the pathological need to tell everyone that he's a "war hero" every time he opens his mouth, appears in a commercial, or gets talked about by sycophantic followers.