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Soldiers are 100% fungible. Nobody is irreplaceable.
If you get Walz to admit he retired when he did to avoid combat, that’s one thing. But speculating why he might have chosen that moment to retire is nothing but an “ad hominem” attack. YOU’RE CLUTCHING AT STRAWS.
Go after him for “stolen valor” because he claimed to hold a rank he never achieved, or because he claimed to have combat experience, that’s one thing. But beyond that, the upshot is that he was Honorably Discharged, and your petty nitpicking won’t change that.
And if you go after him for shirking combat duty, I GUARANTEE the demoncrats are going after Trump for DRAFT DODGING.
Because Trump was 17 years on in 1963, just when Vietnam was kicking off, and NEVER SERVED A DAY IN HIS LIFE.
I’m not defending Walz, I’m telling you it’s A STUPID MOVE and you’re going to get your hat handed to you when the voting public is asked to consider the relative merits of a man who served honorably and retired a Master Sergeant against someone who managed to avoid military service (much less how he managed to avoid it) over the entire course of America’s longest war.
Similar to what Bill Clinton did. Clinton gave his promise to Col. Eugene Holmes, an Army ROTC recruiter at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, that he would sign up for the ROTC officers training school at the University in order to avoid the draft. In the end, he never registered at the school, and fled the country to attend Oxford.
Oddly the troops under his command got lucky. Those troops had injury and some death. One noncom said he was glad that he was lead by someone else. He said if led by him the death and injuries would have been greater. He had no confidence in his leader.
If one is not devoted to your troops and will lead despite all, you are are piece of Sh-t.
At least five videos of Tim Walz’s stolen valor lies have surfaced in the last two days.
Immediately after Walz was introduced as Kamala’s running mate, a video of him falsely claiming to be a combat veteran surfaced.
“We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war,” Tim Walz previously said.
Walz never deployed.
My hero! Because only the police and military should have guns. Especially military people who are issued guns but retire so that they don't have to carry those guns to war! Way to go ya wanker Walz!
Walz has long-billed himself as a retired Command Sergeant Major —
when in reality he was demoted to the lower rank of master sergeant.
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THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.-PJ
---Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (December 23, 1776)