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While His Unit Deployed to Iraq, a Chicken Hawk Walz-ed Away to Safety
Hot Air ^ | August 07, 2024 | Beege Welborn

Posted on 08/07/2024 2:11:18 PM PDT by george76

a stone-cold socialist

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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

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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.

They were gone for twenty-two months.

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

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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.

“This was a backdoor deal,” Julin said of Walz not going on the mission.

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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.

He said, however, that Walz pulling out set a tone.

“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.

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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.

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

By how the spin is going already in the media.

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

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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.

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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.

The most important thing is that when the call came, you went.

Walz went in the other direction.

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Good luck scrubbing that yellowish tinge off in 90 days.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: chickenhawkwalz; dishonestwalz; kerry; lyingsos; lyingwalz; stolenvalor; swiftboat; swiftboatguys; tampontim; timmythedhimmi; timwalz; walz
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1 posted on 08/07/2024 2:11:18 PM PDT by george76
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Yeah, we will get people in here immediately to declare it a paid hit piece.

So frigging what if it was????

The truth is the truth. And besides, I give that scab Walz, who is just one component of a festering Leftist sore on America, ZERO credit for military service.

By being the Leftist he is, he has lost any credit he might get from people who honor military service, because he has broken his vow to defend the Constitution.

I view him as a Domestic Enemy, and we find, with his ties to Communist China, he might be a Foreign Enemy too.


2 posted on 08/07/2024 2:19:24 PM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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Whatever he is, he’s a traitor and coward.


3 posted on 08/07/2024 2:26:49 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: george76

I was in Iraq with the National Guard at the same time and there’s no way he could’ve gotten out of the deployment with stop loss . Somebody had to pull some strings


4 posted on 08/07/2024 2:37:50 PM PDT by ac-rep
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To: george76

It’s going to be hard to pick the best nickname for this guy. Tampon Tim, Timmy the Dhimmi, Chicken Hawk Walz to name a few and the list just keeps growing.


5 posted on 08/07/2024 2:45:38 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: rlmorel

Stolen valor.. Fellow veteran speaks out on Walz’s military record..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVURKDLzrF4


6 posted on 08/07/2024 2:48:25 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: chickenlips

I like Tampon Tim. It simply diminishes him with maximum ridicule.


7 posted on 08/07/2024 2:54:02 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's not as if Biden has the nuclear codes or anything. 😳)
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didn’t he say one of the reasons he didn’t want to call in the National Guard during the riots is because they were just a bunch of 19 year old cooks?

https://alphanews.org/walz-belittles-national-guard-during-infighting-with-mayor-jacob-frey/


8 posted on 08/07/2024 3:03:36 PM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: george76

pusillanimous poltroon


9 posted on 08/07/2024 3:08:23 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: george76

Little Timmy, an azho from Minnisomalia (the one with the new African flag) says he’s going to trample the Second Amendment and take away guns from Americans. That is going to get mighty ugly.


10 posted on 08/07/2024 3:12:58 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you liked the Joe Pedo show, you're going to love the Jamaican Queen's "White Dude" Job Corp.show)
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To: george76

Timmy Walz was the original “Lost Doucheman” who found his pot of gold in the National Guard.


11 posted on 08/07/2024 3:14:23 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you liked the Joe Pedo show, you're going to love the Jamaican Queen's "White Dude" Job Corp.show)
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To: george76

He ran to run.


12 posted on 08/07/2024 3:29:57 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, black Trump supporter, executed in the street in broad daylight 2020.)
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To: george76

Sounds like he has Biden wannabe syndrome.


13 posted on 08/07/2024 3:46:43 PM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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To: chickenlips

How about Sir Robin? Might be too obscure for those who aren’t Monty Python fans, but we could always do a parody version of Sir Robin’s song using Walz’s name.


14 posted on 08/07/2024 3:47:33 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: MayflowerMadam

Transpon Tim might nail it down even more. People might ask what a transpon is, and then his policy of putting tampons in boys bathrooms would be highlighted.

Not sure if transpon is even a word, but maybe it should be.


15 posted on 08/07/2024 4:11:24 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: george76

Are we sure the old Commie wasn’t in Stalingrad fighting the Nazis?

Lol.


16 posted on 08/07/2024 4:13:11 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: george76

How does a senior enlisted soldier “retire” halfway through his enlistment contract period?


17 posted on 08/07/2024 4:18:48 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: george76

Thank you for that. Excellent link, I just finished watching it.

It is shameful that this man is being considered as a vice presidential candidate.

Everything that retired Command Master Sergeant said inthat interview is undoubtedly true.

It really burns me to see his statement The crisis, the criticism oven is coming from people who never wore a uniform. He was right about one thing, it is certainly partisan. He says it like a bad thing, and from his perspective, it most certainly is. I know plenty of people who have worn a uniform who feel exactly the same way I do.


18 posted on 08/07/2024 4:25:04 PM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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I agree on both of those things, FRiend.


19 posted on 08/07/2024 4:26:01 PM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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To: rlmorel

Thank you


20 posted on 08/07/2024 4:39:11 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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