Minnesota National Guard - Walz didn't know about Iraq deployment and was a Command Sgt Major on the day he retired.
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Good thing we are really voting for Harris or Trump. LOL. Even still would definitely vote Wahls over Vance any day of the week LOL.
Vance really saved this country pushing paper. Couldn't have done it without him.
Probably because he didn't say it, and you just were gaslit to "remember" it that way.
Vance just lies about Walz record. We have already discussed this, and how MNG disagrees with Vance’s and your opinion.
Something that doesn’t exist.
For people to stop thinking that their side are the only ones who say the truth. Both sides are liars and most people on here look dumb trying to defend a lying Politician. "We the People" are better than them, not the other way around.
Ummm I just look to facts.
It’s so weird when you finally have someone willing to find this elusive local television interview where Walz effectively shitted himself and said he was on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan you completely pivot and act like you are the hero in this thread when it appears you have been perpetuating a lie and basing it on an imaginary local television segment from “many moons ago.”
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No; they are not. This is Russian Active Measures BS.
Harris/Walz are far more honorable people than Trump/Vance. AINEC
Not sure what you’re trying to say there, but the (one of the) reason(s) I’m not voting for Trump is his covid policies and his loyalty to big Pharma.
Thanks. For the record, this hasn’t changed my mind. I still consider you and your brethren an enemy of the state. I still plan to vote (and piss against the wind in Ioway-tucky-issippi) against you. One love.
Wrong. You’re an idiot for even thinking this is an issue. If you really served you should be more offended by captain bone spurs and his loser and suckers comments.
You mean facts like;
1) Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election in 2016
2) Wearing a mask, staying six feet apart and Vax will stop the spread of COVID
3) Biden was mentally sharp the last 4 years
4) The riots of 2020 were mostly peaceful
Just to name a few of the many facts that are out there?
Wrong. IF that's the case you should also be pissed that Harris didn't serve as well. So, do you?
Walz lied about his rank and where he served. Good for him for serving 24 years. I served 25, so I know what I'm talking about.
Really? Look up his congressional coin and it says SERGEANT MAJOR. This was AFTER he retired. He's a liar.
The post I replied to said his coin said E9. I was said that no one described their rank that way. You confirmed that. Thanks.
Also, he was a sergeant major. In every way except pay. The rank on the uniform was of a sergeant major. I’m sorry you don’t get that.
Harris hasn’t made a habit of taking cheap shots at vets. Trump has.
He RETIRED as a Master Sergeant. That's a fact. His commanding officer has verified it. Here's his coin, by the way, with the wrong rank imprinted:
Neither has Trump. Fake news.
Everyone. I mean everyone, has confirmed that in the day he retired he was a sergeant major. I don’t know what to tell you.He RETIRED as a Master Sergeant. That's a fact. His commanding officer has verified it. Here's his coin, by the way, with the wrong rank imprinted:
Neither has Trump. Fake news.
Can't take you seriously here if you don't recognize the fact that Trump has been a dick to veterans.He RETIRED as a Master Sergeant. That's a fact. His commanding officer has verified it. Here's his coin, by the way, with the wrong rank imprinted:
Neither has Trump. Fake news.
Here is a quote from the guy that replaced him as SGTMajor prior to going to Afghanistan. Are you going to argue this guy is lying or are you going to take his word for it?
Retired Command Sergeant Major Tom Behrends flatly called out Democrat vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) for claiming he was also a retired command sergeant major when he was not, in an exclusive interview with Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily on Monday.
“He is not one,” Behrends told host Mike Slater. “He didn’t finish the school that [when] you get selected to be in an E-9 position, you sign a memorandum of understanding that you’re going to finish the academy, [the] United States Army Sergeant Majors Academy.”
“You’re going to stay in [the Army] two years after that because the military’s got a lot of money invested in you, which is taxpayers’ money. And then if you don’t, if you don’t do that, you basically get reduced to master sergeant and you’re, that’s where you’re at. You’re never, you are never given that opportunity ever again that I know of,” Behrends added.
Behrends had to replace Walz on a deployment that he bailed out of in 2005. The governor knew by March 2005 that he would deploy but then decided to retire from the Army, leaving his unit without its top enlisted leader. While Walz was serving provisionally as a command sergeant major of the unit, he lost that rank when he retired without completing the requirements to retain that rank.
Behrends said, despite Walz not being a retired command sergeant major, he was “campaigning ruthlessly to trick the public into thinking he was higher ranked than he was.”
Behrends first alerted the public to Walz’s deception in 2018 when he was running for governor of Minnesota. However, it did not penetrate to a national audience until Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent selection of Tim Walz as her running mate.
He said one guy did try to alert the public earlier, and Walz tried to argue he was disrespecting a “fellow veteran.”
“He’s a military imposter, is what he is,” he said, explaining the different categories of imposters.
“There’s a civilian version of it that buys a uniform at Goodwill and puts it on and walks around and acting like he’s something he’s not,” Behrends said.
“And then you have the military ones that that do a higher rank than they are, or they might have more medals or ribbons than they actually earned, or they might have service stripes that show they put in more years or whatever. But, you know, he’s in that same category, and he literally has done it for political gain,” he added.
“He had the media in Minnesota under his thumb, and he kind of kept the narrative going,” he added.
whether it’s walz not knowing about his unit deploying to afganistan when he retired after 24 years or trump not knowing about a deployment to vietnam when he dodged the draft due to bone spurs, both sides can claim ignorance.
nyt probably
nyt probably
Weird that this narrative is not supported by the MNG or others.
Kewl
"a quote from a guy"
Large numbers of other ex-military support Walz and decry people like you making shit up here.
What was the rank on his collar the day he retired? Was it Master Sergeant or Sergeant Major? Just answer that.
And that guy is 100 MAGA. He has an agenda and never served with the guy.
I’ll take the Minnesota National Guard’s word over a maga that doesn’t like Walz’s politics. The longer that maga keeps this up, the more military they turn off.
Master Sergeant (E8)
The guy was his REPLACEMENT on deployment. Any service guy will say the same thing regardless of his/her beliefs.
Ergo: he was not even serving with him; he showed up a couple months later and is clueless.
Thx for clarifying.
ABC News spoke to Joseph Eustice, a retired command sergeant major who served with Walz, and he told the news organization this week that “he remembers Walz struggling with the timing of wanting to serve as a lawmaker but also avoiding asking for a deferment so he could do so.”
“He had a window of time,” Eustice told ABC News. “He had to decide. And in his deciding, we were not on notice to be deployed. There were rumors. There were lots of rumors, and we didn’t know where we were going until it was later that, early summer, I believe.”
Al Bonnifield, who served under Walz, also recalled Walz agonizing over the decision.
“It was a very long conversation behind closed doors,” Bonnifield told the Washington Post this week. “He was trying to decide where he could do better for soldiers, for veterans, for the country. He weighed that for a long time.”
In 2018, Bonnifield told MPR News that Walz worried in early 2005, “Would the soldier look down on him because he didn’t go with us? Would the common soldier say, ‘Hey, he didn’t go with us, he’s trying to skip out on a deployment?’ And he wasn’t. He talked with us for quite a while on that subject. He weighed that decision to run for Congress very heavy. He loved the military, he loved the guard, he loved the soldiers he worked with.”
“He had a window of time,” Eustice told ABC News. “He had to decide. And in his deciding, we were not on notice to be deployed. There were rumors. There were lots of rumors, and we didn’t know where we were going until it was later that, early summer, I believe.”
Al Bonnifield, who served under Walz, also recalled Walz agonizing over the decision.
“It was a very long conversation behind closed doors,” Bonnifield told the Washington Post this week. “He was trying to decide where he could do better for soldiers, for veterans, for the country. He weighed that for a long time.”
In 2018, Bonnifield told MPR News that Walz worried in early 2005, “Would the soldier look down on him because he didn’t go with us? Would the common soldier say, ‘Hey, he didn’t go with us, he’s trying to skip out on a deployment?’ And he wasn’t. He talked with us for quite a while on that subject. He weighed that decision to run for Congress very heavy. He loved the military, he loved the guard, he loved the soldiers he worked with.”
Him deploying has little to do with much.
He advanced his political career using a title he didn't hold "retired command Sargent major".
Oh man, wait until JD finds out about how Trump's daddy bought his way out of service. I bet he fires off an angry tweet, otherwise people with a brain might think he's being a tad hypocritical...
I see IMCC is being willfully ignorant once again and at the same time defending a rapist that bashes on veterans.
Par for the course.
Par for the course.
