We have no idea what his disability is, or how he got it.
We DO know, for a fact, he has it though. The company won the contracts under the SDVOSB moniker and that is verifiable. To win the contract under that moniker, they needed veterans owning at least 51% of the stock to be in charge of the daily ops. He and Richard were in charge, Richard never held more that 29%.
Everything in that paragraph is verifiable, what is the only logical conclusion we can draw??
Sym, who owned the other 26-29% was a disabled vet.
If he was forward deployed anywhere, that entails a good deal of risk even if he was just a "cook". Which of course, he wasn't because that's an enlisted job. He might have been in charge of some small logistics chain or something.