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You have no way of knowing what his status at the time was or why he enlisted. It's entirely possible he was dirt poor, with a bad draft number, so he joined the Navy to make sure he wouldn't be on the ground in Vietnam. And staying in after would make sense at that point as he doesn't have anything to go home to.
Very true, however I was merely drawing a distinction between those drafted and tossed aside, and those who the original commenter said had committed horrors abroad. This guy is more likely to have been complicit.
To be fair, given his job, this guy probably didn't commit wild atrocities. He probably stared at a screen, waiting for the Viet Cong to deploy submarines.