Would have put CIA near the top of a list of places not to pad your resume, but apparently it worked for him before the gold bars thing went sideways:
"in his first application, he said he graduated from Clemson University in 2000 … he added that he had a graduate degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute … On his third try, in 2009, he succeeded, and he included those degrees and an aircraft test from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. None of it was true"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna347177
