KERRVILLE — Jack Pratt Jr. narrowly won the mayor’s seat here in 2012 by touting himself as a skilled financial consultant, former business exec and veteran of multiple Army tours in Vietnam with U.S. Special Forces.

Now Pratt’s resume has moved front-and-center in this military-friendly Hill Country town as his detractors circulate documents that contradict major elements of it.

His military records indicate he spent nearly eight years in the Army but just seven weeks in Vietnam as a personnel supervisor before leaving the service as a staff sergeant in 1971.

Pratt claims to have a masters in business administration from the University of Hawaii. Officials there say they have no record of him attending its Shidler College of Business.

Pratt, 73, denied that he embellished his resume but declined to provide documents to substantiate his claimed achievements.

“I’m not going to help you with any of this because you’re trying to crucify me,” he said last week. “I don’t need to confirm my personal history.”

Pratt blamed the scrutiny on local politics and said he has contacted the Army about correcting his record. He didn’t specify what elements of it were inaccurate.

He drew “Vietnam service combat pay during the years 1967, '68, '69 and '71,” he said in an email that also indicated he was “attached and/or TDY with Special Forces.”

National Personnel Records Center documents say Pratt was a radio operator in Germany in 1964, a personnel sergeant in Thailand from 1967 to 1969 and in Vietnam from May 25 to July 15, 1971.

The mayor owes the community an explanation, City Councilman Gene Allen said, calling the inconsistencies “alarming.”

“He needs to come clean,” Allen said. “If they can’t be adequately explained, it’s a sad day for Kerrville.”

Pratt’s LinkedIn profile says he was president and CEO of “a national financial firm” from 1985-96 and president of “an international oil and gas company” from 1982-85.

The website for Summit Advisors Inc., which lists Pratt as CEO and president, says that before entering management consulting, he held “senior executive positions” in healthcare, aerospace, food and beverage, publishing, energy and the financial sectors.

Another website, Jack-Pratt.com, calls him “one of America’s premier inspirational speakers” and a former Army drill instructor who served “multiple tours” in Vietnam.

Pratt’s service claims impressed Craig Taylor, who worked with him on a veterans housing complex that Taylor is building here.

“Certainly, I have heard and I communicated it to others that the mayor had served four tours in Vietnam with Special Forces,” Taylor said. “To me, that’s kind of awe-inspiring. It’s a pretty incredible record.”

But the vagueness of many entries in Pratt’s online profiles have long fueled skepticism.

Alan Hill, director of the Hill Country Veterans Center, says Pratt twice told him of serving four tours of duty as a Green Beret in Vietnam. A dubious Hill, himself a three-tour Vietnam veteran, obtained Pratt’s military records and now calls him “a wannabe Special Forces.”

Hill, 70, denied any political motive in his criticism, saying, “It has nothing to do with him being the mayor.”

An anti-drug initiative called D-FY-IT that Pratt launched in 1992, dissolved in 2008, state records show. Pratt still maintains a website for it (www.d-fy-it.org), which actively solicits donations to be sent to a Kerrville post office box.

Pratt wouldn’t say why he’s still seeking donations, or what he does with any money collected. He said he keeps the site up to show others how to form such an organization.

The inconsistencies don’t shock David Wampler, the incumbent Kerrville mayor whom Pratt ousted by 25 votes in 2012 as leader of the city of about 23,000.

Pratt spoke of mutiple tours in Vietnam with U.S. Special Forces in a candidate forum that year, Wampler recalled, noting, “There was considerable talk and skepticism in town at the time about Mr. Pratt's claims.”

He said he also doubts there’s much substance behind Summit’s web claim to be a global consulting businesses.

Pratt said Summit Advisors “was very active” until he became mayor, but wouldn’t reveal its current status or say how many employees it has had.

The firm formed in 1990 and forfeited its Texas incorporation in 1996, according to records at the Secretary of State’s Office. Pratt declined to say if he incorporated it elsewhere after that.

A former Summit coworker of Pratt’s in Houston, Earl Stout, said he doesn’t know when the firm last did management consulting, investment advising and securities work.

“He’s probably too straightforward for them,” Stout said when told of the scrutiny facing Pratt in Kerrville. “I’ve always found him to be a straight shooter.”