Posted on 08/12/2024 6:58:12 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
It’s unlikey that Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee to the vice presidency, knew that his unit would receive mobilization orders not long after he retired in 2005, sources with the Minnesota National Guard told the Herald.
Since the announcement he would join Vice President Kamala Harris atop the party ticket, Walz has come under sustained fire over his decision to retire following 24 years of service in various Guard units while his battalion was allegedly under orders to deploy or set to soon receive orders, and over his use of the Command Sergeant Major rank in campaign messaging.
However, according to information shared by multiple official sources within the MNG, Walz earned that rank and would need either the gift of prophecy or a time machine to use the deployment as an excuse to leave the service, as his May 2005 retirement date came months before the 1-125th Battalion of the 1st Brigade Combat Team learned they would mobilize and most of a year before the unit was actually deployed to Iraq for what would become a historically long, 22-month tour.
According to Lt. Col. Kristen Augé, the MNG’s State Public Affairs Officer, Walz “served from April 8, 1981, to May 16, 2005″ during which time he “held multiple positions within field artillery such as firing battery chief, operations sergeant, first sergeant, and culminated his career serving as the command sergeant major for the battalion.”
“Governor Walz served in the Minnesota National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery after transferring from the Nebraska National Guard in 1996. While serving in Minnesota, his military occupational specialties were 13B – a cannon crewmember who operates and maintains cannons and 13Z – field artillery senior sergeant.
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It is bull. I am retired reservist, he would have known months in advance that this was coming down.
One more liar.
Heck... the unit chaplain even said he knew.
Total BS
His old CO has already spilled the beans on this - plus, others who were in his unity have also made it clear that they knew the deployment was coming before he pulled his "end-run" (inappropriate as his CO said) path to retirement (aka - broke his re-enlistment promise).
Stolen Valor - cast in metal.
I’ve had NG members as church members and friends - and it is extremely rare for them to not have knowledge of planned deployments well before the “official” announcement. They just are not allowed to talk about it until the announcement is released by command.
The ARFORGEN cycle dictated which units were ready to deploy, and the army has lists of which units are at the top to go next. Even the mafia knows when they’re likely to go. Deployments are rarely a surprise.
Hell, we lost several guys in my cav unit to another one deploying, and they were starting to recruit for it a year before they were officially going
Its unlikely the Boston Herold even knows where the NG base is in Minneapolis let alone where MN is on the map.
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