Actually CNN allowed Nathan Phillips to claim he served in Vietnam without challenging him, which is why watching CNN is a complete waste of time; it's about advocacy, not news

"News erroneously reported that he was a Vietnam veteran"

CNN lets Phillips twice claim to have served in Vietnam, unchallenged

Native American Nathan Phillips has a history of seeking out confrontation over race

He's been around a long time and has a Wikipedia page, which is up to date with the latest incident in Washington, DC where he gets in the face of some easy marks, a bunch of unsuspecting Catholic kids.

Just one previous example, at Eastern Michigan University in 2015 when he went looking for trouble:

Native American claims racial harassment by EMU students dressed as indians.