A 15-year-old Florida boy was reported to have successfully served two hitches in Vietnam, but the Army was refusing to recognize his service. Walter Martin, who was apparently unusually tall for his age, had successfully enlisted at age 12 under a false name, but had been discovered and sent home after having been wounded. Then, he had somehow managed to rejoin the military forces again under another name, but had again been wounded and sent home. An Army official stated that Martin “was not officially in, did not officially enlist or enter through any normal method. He was, in fact, not a soldier. That’s why he was turned over to the U.S. Attorney’s office.” A charge of fraud against the government (for Martin having filed a claim of $166 while posing under the second name) had been dropped, and Martin was headed home to his mother, who said she was going to “hug and kiss him and never let him out of (her) sight again.” She also planned on baking him his favorite coconut cake and then sitting down with him for a “long talk.”