While His Unit Deployed to Iraq, a Chicken Hawk Walz-ed Away to Safety

Tim Walz has never "carried" a weapon "in war" because Tim Walz - citizen soldier - has never been to war.

The closest he got to a battlefield in 25 years in various Guard units was a deployment to Italy.... In late summer of 2003

when his unit got called up for deployment to an actual war zone in 2005 and Tim Walz had been appointed as their command's acting senior enlisted leader?

Tim Walz bugged out on his guys. "Retired" to run for Congress, while everyone else he'd trained with left for battlefields in Iraq for almost the next two years.

.In early 2005, a warning order was issued to the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, which included the position he was serving in, to prepare to be mobilized for active duty for a deployment to Iraq.

On May 16th, 2005 he quit, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging; without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war. His excuse to other leaders was that he needed to retire in order to run for congress. Which is false, according to a Department of Defense Directive, he could have run and requested permission from the Secretary of Defense before entering active duty; as many reservists have. If he had retired normally and respectfully, you would think he would have ensured his retirement documents were correctly filled out and signed, and that he would have ensured he was reduced to Master Sergeant for dropping out of the academy. Instead he waited for the paperwork to catch up to him. His official retirement document states, SOLDIER NOT AVAILABLE FOR SIGNATURE.

On September 10th, 2005 conditionally promoted Command Sergeant Major Walz was reduced to Master Sergeant. It took a while for the system to catch up to him as it was uncharted territory, literally no one quits in the position he was in, or drops out of the academy. Except him.

The two Command Sergeants Major (CSM) - Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr - who penned the above letter to the West Central Tribune were the ones who did go, with CSM Behrends stepping in to take the spot Walz had abandoned

According to his official Report of Separation and Record of Service, he re-enlisted for six years on September 18th, 2001. However, in his response he says that he re-enlisted for four years, conveniently retiring a year before his battalion was deployed to Iraq. Even if he had re-enlisted for four years following Sept.11, his retirement date would have been September 18th, 2005. Why then did he "retire" on May 16th, 2005, before his supposed four-year enlistment was up? And he makes it sound like he "retired" a year before his battalion deployed to Iraq; when in reality he knew when he "retired" that the battalion would be deployed to Iraq.

There was a third CSM who stepped forward to corroborate the accounts of the others.

A third retired command sergeant major is speaking out against Gov. Tim Walz, saying he “let his soldiers down” by avoiding a deployment to Iraq in 2005 before running for Congress.

Doug Julin worked his way up to division command sergeant major (CSM) before he retired from the Minnesota National Guard in 2012 after serving 35 years.

Julin said a group of senior leaders met in early 2005 to get on the same page about the deployment. He said six battalions in total were going on the Iraq mission and four were from Minnesota. Julin recalled that Walz was at this meeting because he had just been conditionally promoted to the rank of command sergeant major of the First Battalion-125th Field Artillery. According to Julin, Walz said he would be going on the deployment.

...Julin said he was most upset with how it was handled because Walz didn’t come to him as brigade command sergeant major, the position he held at the time.

“He went around my authority to get out of the position. I probably would have told him ‘No, you’re going on the deployment,’” Julin said.

“At that point in time my focus wasn’t on Tim Walz walking out the door. My focus was on all the enlisted. I had to make sure all the soldiers had their head on straight. Their health and welfare were at the forefront, and we had to make sure they had everything they needed to do their jobs,” he added.

“Soldiers are thinking, ‘What does he know that I don’t know?’ That’s the kind of message it sends,” he said.

In the short time since news of Walz's selection as Harris's running mate broke, there has been a tremendous amount of information emerging on this aspect of the governor's career. He has claimed to be a retired "Command Sergeant Major" (E-9 pay grade) which is completely wrong. He held the rank temporarily [Beege adds: "conditionally promoted"]. never completed the requirements for the permanent rank, and bugged out before bothering to even sign his paperwork. The Army reduced his retired pay grade to E-8.

He also might not have ever been the "highest ranking enlisted member of Congress" because he had never been permanently promoted to the rank he claimed he was.

So flying under a false flag there? Yeah. You could absolutely make that argument.

And about that trip to Italy? It got kind of a heroic burnishing job just a couple of months after ditching his unit when it came time for Walz's first congressional run.

Instead of being honest about his early departure from the military, Walz told the media a much more heroic tale, one that was entirely fictitious.

Bloomberg’s Joshua Green, then employed at The Atlantic, was the first major reporter to profile Walz. In an interview with the then-congressional candidate, Green writes that in 2004, Walz left his hometown in Minnesota “to serve overseas in Operation Enduring Freedom.”

Command Sergeant Major Tim Walz is a twenty-four-year veteran of the Army National Guard, now retired but still on active duty when a visit from President George W. Bush shortly before the 2004 election coincided with Walz's homecoming to Mankato, Minnesota. A high school teacher and football coach, he had left to serve overseas in Operation Enduring Freedom. Southern Minnesota is home to a large Guard contingent that includes Walz's unit, the First 125th Field Artillery Battalion, so the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are naturally a pressing local concern—particularly to high school students headed into the armed services.

It’s unclear if this is Green, a veteran reporter, omitting major facts, or if Walz, the interviewee, is selling Green on a particular narrative. Nonetheless, the assertion is incredibly misleading, as it leaves the reader under the impression that Walz served as boots on the ground in the Global War on Terror, when in reality, he merely deployed to Italy in 2003 for a six month stint.

If this is the best they could do for vet cred, it might well have been better not to have any at all. As Rep Mike Waltz noted this morning, you betcha vets are talking about this.

And you know how you take the temperature of what the "military community" is saying?

Right out of the box, a subscriber Politico story gussies up Walz with the wrong rank.

The Swiftboat guys had Kerry dead to rights about his lies and exaggerations, so naturally, the Left has turned it into a pejorative.

If they can get out ahead of the country discovering that Walz is, in reality, a Blue Falcon/Chicken Hawk poseur maybe there's hope they can salvage some military faux moral authority out of this.

The Harris campaign is going to have to work awfully hard, though, because my military contacts and friends are exploding, as are the social media platforms.

I made the point yesterday a couple of times. First, when an NPR reporter was wondering how a Vance v Walz record match stacked up.

Tim Walz is kind of a sickly, jaundiced yellow right now and the Progs are already in overdrive.

No one cares if you were a "Command Uber driver," as Mayor Pete calls himself (which is actually pretty funny), or a combat journalist, like JD - if you're honest about what you did.

“He ran to run” AWAY!!
I can’t post what I REALLY want to say out of respect to
our glorious leader, JimRob!

It’s really HARD, though!
I don’t like to behave!
*evil grin*

Yeah I was wondering about that. I piped up on some early threads on this subject and was told to shut up, he served honorably, am I a veteran, who the hell am I, etc.

I thought back to those years and to how they were pulling in people who’d left active duty years ago. So could he just up and leave under the circumstances when he had signed a 6 year re-enlistment in 2001?

I’m thinking “Dhimmicrat Tampon Timmy” could be appropriate.

I kind of like using Timmy, it sort captures the little boy that likes to play soldier aspect of him.

Then again with all that’s coming out Dhimmicrat “Timmy, Tool of the CCP” might be in the running.

Megyn Kelly begins by discussing the truth about Minn. Governor and Dem VP pick Tim Walz’s military record, the reality about him leaving the National Guard, “stolen valor” claims and the facts, how Walz and the left are trying to spin this massive controversy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-A2avP9iXA

The Walls Are Closing In On Walz: Kamala’s VP Choice Is Beginning to Backfire on Democrats

The Charlie Kirk Show

https://rumble.com/v5a7v1w-the-walls-are-closing-in-on-walz-kamalas-vp-choice-is-beginning-to-backfire.html

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