This is not good news for Tim Walz.
Army Lieutenant Colonel Kristen Augé, the state public affairs officer for Minnesota National Guard, told Just the News on Wednesday that the governor did not retire as "Command Sergeant Major Walz" in 2005, as stated on Minnesota's official website, but as master sergeant "because he did not complete additional coursework at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy." A soldier who does not complete the requisite coursework is automatically demoted, according to Army regulations.
This conflicts with what Tim Walz put on his bio page for the Kamala Harris campaign:
For six terms, Governor Walz represented Minnesota’s First Congressional District – a conservative-leaning district where he was only the second Democrat elected since 1890. The son of an Army veteran and a retired Command Sergeant Major in the Army National Guard himself, Walz was the ranking member on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, where he passed legislation to help stem veterans’ suicides.
I am archiving that page periodically in case Tim Walz tries to memory hole this little “inaccuracy” of his.
This also highlights another “inaccuracy”. A bio puff piece i Bloomburg yesterday reported that Walz was deployed to Iraq.
At the time, the Iraq War was ongoing (and going badly), and he stood out as Command Sergeant Major Walz, a 24-year veteran of the Army National Guard, recently returned from serving in Iraq as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. He’d retired to teach high school and coach football.
Bloomberg revised the piece earlier today.
But the question will get asked—and deservedly so—why is Tim Walz lying about his National Guard service?
And it is clear from the Newsweek article that he is at the very least misrepresenting his National Garud service.
Is this going to die down or is it going to take Tim Walz down?
