I was with the Green Berets, Special Unit Battalions... Commando Airborne Tactics... Specialist Tactics, uh, Unit Battalion. Yeah, it was real hush hush. I was Agent Orange. That was my name, Agent Orange. Special Agent Orange, that was me.
Posted on 08/22/2024 10:58:03 AM PDT by pboyington
Dear Master Sergeant (Ret.) Walz:
Wow, there sure has been a lot of fuss and feathers over your military service; lots of stories, lots of videos, lots of nagging doubts about your record big guy. First of all, thank you for your service in the Minnesota National Guard for 24 years. Nevertheless, let’s talk about some of the gaping, bleeding holes in your personal military narrative. Let’s discuss some issues that are really irritating veterans and especially combat veterans.
You’re not a retired command sergeant major. While you served for a brief time as a command sergeant major, “You retired as a Master Sergeant in 2005 for benefit purposes because you did not complete additional coursework at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy."
So, stop calling yourself a retired command sergeant major. I don’t call myself a retired major general, because I was never a major general, nor am I retired from the military, capiche.
FACT: In 2004, as acting command sergeant major, you put in your retirement papers when you discovered that your unit, the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery Regiment would deploy to the sandbox within months. As the senior non-commissioned officer, you bugged out and left your men. While they were at war in Iraq for 22 months, fighting and dying for their country, you practiced your little Buddhist bow as you ran for Congress. There’s a yellow streak down your back as long as I-80, cowboy. I can tell you Master Sergeant Walz, that you are lucky you didn’t run into a certain command sergeant major I knew, who served FIVE years in Vietnam with the 173rd ABN and who would have wall to wall counseled you into the mass of quivering jelly that you are.
Stop telling people you carried a weapon in war. In 2003, you deployed to Vincenza, Italy, in SUPPORT of Operation Enduring Freedom. You were never within 5000 miles of any shot and shell. The only elephant you saw was a glass figurine in a China shop in Naples. The US Army hasn’t fired a shot in anger in Italy since1945 and brave guys like Bob Dole gave all that mortality can give at places like Castel d’ Aiano and Riva Ridge and Anzio. Your biggest worry was the leaning tower of Pisa falling on you or choking on a cannoli, coach…you were an extra in a remake of Roman Holiday with J Lo and Ben Affleck.
You aren’t an Enduring Freedom vet. Stop nodding along with journalists when they accidentally call you one, stop holding signs that read, “Enduring Freedom Vets for Kerry.”
Stop talking about’ whispering about your PTSD’ when you got back; about how you feel guilty about returning from the conflict when others didn’t, as if you’re a white horseshoe head version of Private James Ryan. Give me a break. “When we got back…the guilt… bodies on the tarmac at Bagram”…Shut the F up.
Stop being the world’s biggest wannabee.
Stop pretending that you’re something you’re not. You’re not a command sergeant major. You’re not a combat vet. In fact, you are the anti-combat vet. You ran from the sound of the guns, not to them like many brave men I know and knew. Your actions are disgraceful and in violation of the Stolen Valor Act. You should be prosecuted and thrown in a jail cell in Tangiers for six months with some French Foreign Legion vets who would use your bald head as a pool cue in the exercise yard.
You’re not one of the souls that ‘fought with us on St Crispin’s Day. You’re one of the men who was in Minnesota abed, and who forever thinks himself accursed’, don’t you?
I don’t walk around telling people I was a Navy SEAL sniper with Chris Kyle or I with Delta in the Mog. Or, I won the DSC in Grenada. But, I’m proud of my service as a MI officer who rode with the 7th Cavalry at place called 73 Easting, Iraq.
You are not part of the Band of Brothers, you are not part of ‘the few, we happy few.’ You are not fit to stand in the company of the brave troopers who gave all in our wars.
And, you are lucky that my old mentor Colonel David Hackworth is not alive today. He would have chewed you up and spit you out like the piece of blubbering, bowing, Bolshevik bubble gum you are. Hack, the most decorated vet walking the USA in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s did not suffer fools and could spot a feather merchant perfumed prince like you at 1000 yards in the dead of night. You might remember how he outed another stolen valor fraud, Admiral Boorda, for wearing a V device on his Navy Commendation Medal.
Frankly with your ties and love of all things communist and Chinese, I wonder how in the hell you drifted off the S2’s radar and what in the hell what you were doing over there on your honeymoon? Was that when you and your wife made first contact with your case officer? Your comments about communism and your numerous trips there are a cacophonic cry in the night for someone in counter-intelligence to crawl up your yellow backside and do a serious special background investigation on you, Comrade Coach.
Yes, Master Sergeant you can smile and wave and do your little Mao bow to your followers, but the truth is in the dark of Minnesota nights when you return to bed from a milk and cookies run and you can’t sleep, your mind drifts off to the fact that you know you ran from the sound of the guns. And, as Bill Shakespeare so eloquently wrote, “a coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.”
Nighty night comrade master sergeant.
Huh? I thought timaaaaaaay was retired as a Lt. Gen commando master sgt. He may as well display his medals whole he’s at it. Hey timaaaaaay-—🖕
Well that took a decidedly nasty turn rather quickly, and deservedly so.
Yeah, the only problem is the jerk will sleep well tonight. A person like him has no conscience. Probably no soul.
Loved reading that. Thx for posting it.
“ you are lucky that my old mentor Colonel David Hackworth is not alive today. He would have chewed you up and spit you out like the piece of blubbering, bowing, Bolshevik bubble gum you are. ”
Whoever wrote that, thank you. (Signed) JFD, Major, US Army, Retired.
he thinks he is Gunny Highway he aint
Pappy? Well written letter! You have spoken for the. millions of men who did not “bail out,” when they learned of an upcoming deployment.
“Coach” Walz was paid, for 24 years, to be ready to deploy and lead his troops. He cheated the state that paid him. He is a rotter.
Make that an “Excellent letter!!”
I was with the Green Berets, Special Unit Battalions... Commando Airborne Tactics... Specialist Tactics, uh, Unit Battalion. Yeah, it was real hush hush. I was Agent Orange. That was my name, Agent Orange. Special Agent Orange, that was me.
“I’m not a fan of Mr. Walz but regarding his rank when he retired, I ask what is on his retirement papers from the Army.
Also, regarding his “leaving his men”, what normally happens when an officer in charge of soldiers retires? Given that he was retiring, what should he have done?
Also reported in the news is that his son, in the audience while his dad was speaking, cried. I considered that not newsworthy nor is it deserving of criticism. I think he was genuinely moved by his dad’s speech.
Dear MSG Waltz,
I was selected for the SGM Academy nonresident in 1991 concurrent with selection for E-8. I became a 1SG, frocked as an E-7 until my promotion date to E-8. I completed the SGM Academy nonresident, and while attending the 1SG Course at the SGM Academy, completed the resident PT Test mandatory requirement. However, I retired as an E-8 1SG. You were an acting CSM, but never held the paygrade of E-9.
CSM is above your paygrade. You are a MSG Retired.
Cut the BS about coursework or resident SGM Academy. Ypu are a fraud.
I question that you actually held a TO&E E-9 slot/position, and seriously question if your unit didn’t create a local designation of CSM for your detachment....
He looks like Elmer Fudd hunting rabbits.
I'm sure you mean "wabbits" ...
That was brutal and deservedly so.
What’s your point?
Thanks for posting
“What’s your point?”
I look at military discharge papers (typically DD214 and NGB-22) regularly in my job. Missing from discussions that I’ve seen on his rank at discharge are references to his discharge papers.
I believe he misrepresented his rank at discharge and think that’s nasty but here at work we wouldn’t take someone’s word for such an accusation.
Tell me, what should an officer honorably do when they retire?
What a most excellent foxtrot uniform/mike foxtrot.
I strongly suspect that you were never in command of anything: We are trained for war - not for wearing pretty uniforms or drill and ceremony - our whole purpose is to be ready to fight. Commanders, Officers In Charge, Senior enlisted leaders are there to train, lead, guide their men in combat -and take the risks with them.
Given that, he should have called his Retirement Branch and "I'm going to get orders in theater; my men will need me - please put my request for retirement on hold until we get back".
That's what commanders do - and as old as I am now (27 years in uniform and at least one bullet hole), if the Marine Corps would have me back, I'd be on my way over with my troops, right now.
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