Tim Walz Swiftboated, Stolen Valor. Falsely Was in "War" When He Actually Abandoned His Men When They Shipped to Iraq

[AZrailwhale]

Here's a CNN interview with retired Command Sergeant Major Doug Julin. Hope this clears up some of the noise and false reporting by third and forth party sources.

That is definitive. Walz KNEW he was being deployed before he applied for his retirement AND he violated the chain of command. His superior clearly said that he would have denied Walz's retirement.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Stupid comment. Anyone who knocks the NG or AR or any reserves is a know nothing. I know no veteran who does that. Stolen valor? Those who claim it are the ones who would have run.

kn

Speak to any veteran before the war on terror. The Reserves generally got respect since they were mostly manned with prior service people. The NG was always a joke. Nobody respected the NGs, the kindest nickname they had was Campus Commandos. Prior to being used to flesh out war on terror, units the NG was poorly trained, poorly equipped and very poorly disciplined.

 

[frigidweirdo]

So not only did he falsely claim he was in a war zone, he turned tail and abandoned his men when they shipped to Iraq.

"I carried a weapon of war in war” - Tim Walz

Exclusive | Tim Walz a ‘coward’ and ‘traitor’ for retiring from military before Iraq, says Guardsman who replaced VP pick

“When your country calls, you are supposed to run into battle — not the other way,” Thomas Behrends told The Post of Tim Walz. “He ran away.”

nypost.com

Tim Walz a ‘coward’ and ‘traitor’ for retiring from military before Iraq, says Guardsman who replaced VP pick​

By
Isabel Vincent
Published Aug. 6, 2024,

When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz chose to leave the military on the eve of his deployment to Iraq, Thomas Behrends went in his place.

“I needed to hit the ground running and take care of the troops — and tell them we were going to war,” Behrends said of the 500 soldiers under his command. “For a guy in that position, to quit is cowardice.”
Behrends, a 63-year-old farmer in Brewster, Minn., called the Democratic vice presidential candidate “a traitor” for retiring from their Minnesota National Guard unit just before their deployment to Iraq in 2005.
“When your country calls, you are supposed to run into battle — not the other way,” the retired command sergeant major told The Post Tuesday. “He ran away. It’s sad.

“He had the opportunity to serve his country, and said ‘Screw you’ to the United States. That’s not who I would pick to run for vice president.”






Fellow National Guardsmen who went to Iraq in place of Gov. Tim Walz say Kamala Harris’ VP pick is a “traitor” for retiring before deployment.REUTERS

Tim Walz's past DUI arrest for driving 96 mph in a 55 zone comes back to haunt VP pick​

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When Democratic vice presidential pick Tim Walz retired from the National Guard on the eve of his battalion’s deployment to Iraq in 2005, Tom Behrends (above) took his place as command sergeant major overseeing 500 troops.courtesy of Thomas Behrends

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Behrends (above) called Walz a “coward” for retiring from the National Guard on the eve of his unit’s Iraq deployment in 2005.courtesy of Thomas Behrends

Walz, 60, joined the National Guard after high school and served 24 years in the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery, rising to the rank of command sergeant major. He retired in 2005 — months after a warning order that the battalion would be deployed to Iraq — to run for Congress. He was elected to office in 2006.

“On May 16th, 2005, [Walz] quit, betraying his country, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war,” Behrends and fellow retired Guardsman Paul Herr wrote in a letter posted to Facebook during Walz’s first gubernatorial run, in 2018.

Here's the difference between the Republican ticket and Democratic ticket.

Kamala said she doesn't attack people for their service, it's what Americans do.

Vance went to war, and didn't fight. They don't attack him for that. They could, because we know Trump would have done.

Trump goes after anyone and everything. He went after Nikky Haley's husband for not being there... he was serving, Trump didn't give a shit.

Trump attacked McCain who spend ages in a prisoner of war camp.

Trump attacks Walz for retiring from the military

Trump is a fucking asshole, and Trump attacking people for their military service is absolutely fucking hilarious, because Trump's military record is "bone spurs" or some shit.

How anyone in the military could vote for such a fucking c*nt is beyond me.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

ISIS owned an area the size of Texas when President Trump was sworn in.

He then cut the funding to them, because your believe Hussein Obama was funding ISIS since the beginning. Only took a year for them to fall apart and get scattered into the winds.

Hmmm, but you support a man who received multiple deferment while other Americans were dying for their country.

Get your hypocrite ass outta here.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Speak to any veteran before the war on terror. The Reserves generally got respect since they were mostly manned with prior service people. The NG was always a joke. Nobody respected the NGs, the kindest nickname they had was Campus Commandos. Prior to being used to flesh out war on terror, units the NG was poorly trained, poorly equipped and very poorly disciplined.

How many reservist and NG units served in Desert Storm?

 

[munkle]

How many reservist and NG units served in Desert Storm?

Many.

 

[boevans]

Speak to any veteran before the war on terror. The Reserves generally got respect since they were mostly manned with prior service people. The NG was always a joke. Nobody respected the NGs, the kindest nickname they had was Campus Commandos. Prior to being used to flesh out war on terror, units the NG was poorly trained, poorly equipped and very poorly disciplined.

Veterans are having none of that anti-Walz nonsense. The war on terror went on for twenty years and the NG became very professional.