Friend of mine in the 70's was a chef who received a Purple Heart for serving in Antartica. He became allergic from cold so said the paperwork that came with the metal.
He was not in the military as far as I know.
One of his other brothers was credited with creating the space shuttle tiles even though he was a high school dropout, the other programmed FICA computers even though he new nothing about programing. These brothers were trust fund babies.