Did Command Sergeant Major Walz serve during wartime?

[Meathead]

This character saw combat...LOL...Vance himself served in the Marine Corps for four years, and he also never saw combat. He worked as a combat correspondent in Iraq between August 2005 and February 2006.
Alexander Vindman, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, wrote on X, formerly Twitter: "Vance enlisted & served 4 yrs, including 6 months in Iraq in 2005 as a reporter w/ a Public Affairs section of a Marine Aircraft Wing.
4 Yrs. compared to 24...You people are pathetic.

Vindman? Come on, ya gotta to do better than that!