Tim Walz left National Guard battalion ‘hanging,’ ‘slithered out the door’ before Iraq deployment

[The Real timschochet 6,402]

47 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

That Hog boy did a heel turn on Walz

 

https://x.com/davidhogg111/status/1817285408029646992?s=46&t=6lIrLFMCF1K0N7A7JwF7fg

.@Tim_Walz used to be supported by the NRA and took money from them. But after the Parkland shooting his daughter, Hope asked he do all he could to fight gun violence. In response Walz not only denounced the NRA & gave all the money he ever took from them to charity. Since then he’s passed multiple gun laws as governor of Minnesota

 

What’s the problem here? 

[squistion 1,944]

5 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

What’s the problem here? 

Nothing.

I think he just wanted another excuse to call him Hog (sic) rather than Hogg, even if the point he is making makes no sense.

[Cdub100 3,825]

13 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

What’s the problem here? 

Traitors to the nation trying to remove our God given rights would be be at the top of my list.

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20 hours ago, The Real timschochet said:

I read today that Walz could have retired after 20 years but, after 9/11, decided to re-enlist. Then after 24 years he thought he could do more in Congress for veterans than he could continuing to serve. He was on the Veterans committee for several year. 
 

This story is going nowhere. 

Well said.

 

Sad that these fools are trying to smear a 20 year veteran who* GASP*...wanted to retire when they are lining up to get on their knees in front of a man who described his desire to not get STDS his "personal Vietnam" and who used bone spurs to get out of service.

[Hardcore troubadour 14,919]

7 minutes ago, zsasz said:

Well said.

 

Sad that these fools are trying to smear a 20 year veteran who* GASP*...wanted to retire when they are lining up to get on their knees in front of a man who described his desire to not get STDS his "personal Vietnam" and who used bone spurs to get out of service.

His commanding officer says he punked out. Is what he says to be dismissed? 

[MDC 7,121]

Walz put in his retirement papers 5-7 months before his battalion was notified that they could be deployed within 2 years, and at least a year before they want to Iraq. At age 41.

What does it say about that little weasel JD that he knowingly lies about a fellow serviceman?

Pathetic.  

[Sean Mooney 1,937]

50 minutes ago, MDC said:

Walz put in his retirement papers 5-7 months before his battalion was notified that they could be deployed within 2 years, and at least a year before they want to Iraq. At age 41.

What does it say about that little weasel JD that he knowingly lies about a fellow serviceman?

Pathetic.  

They are literally grasping at straws to fight against Walz at this point

[squistion 1,944]

58 minutes ago, MDC said:

Walz put in his retirement papers 5-7 months before his battalion was notified that they could be deployed within 2 years, and at least a year before they want to Iraq. At age 41.

What does it say about that little weasel JD that he knowingly lies about a fellow serviceman?

Pathetic.  

It says that he is the perfect running mate for Trump.

[MDC 7,121]

10 minutes ago, Sean Mooney said:

They are literally grasping at straws to fight against Walz at this point

I would expect Trump to make these claims. We already know he’s a scumbag liar with no integrity.

For JD to lie about a fellow serviceman’s retirement is pathetic. What a weirdo.

[Hardcore troubadour 14,919]

I stay away from the mud slinging from the campaigns. But I do give credence to what his Commanding Officer had to say. Walz is a punk and a coward.  It’s not up for debate. 

[Cdub100 3,825]

 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,919]

The guy that had to replace Walz describes Walz as a traitor and an imposter. 

[Baker Boy 1,687]

"I do not regret that Tim Walz retired early from the Minnesota National Guard, did not complete the Sergeants Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract or did not successfully complete any assignment as a Sergeant Major. Unwittingly, he got out of the way for better leadership," - John Kolb - battalion commander of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s former Minnesota Army National Guard unit

[seafoam1 2,799]

"I wanna be in the army but refuse to fight for this nation." 

[MDC 7,121]

MAGAs like flags and parades, not so much respect for actual military service tho.  

[squistion 1,944]

5 minutes ago, MDC said:

MAGAs like flags and parades, not so much respect for actual military service tho.  

See John McCain. 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,919]

2 minutes ago, squistion said:

See John McCain. 

The guy democrats called a racist, while simultaneously saying he was too white and too old? That John McCain? 

[HellToupee 1,583]

 

Maine Mom: My Daughter “Went to War” in Tim Walz’s Place After Order to Join Minnesota National Guard

Steve RobinsonAugust 12, 2024

A Maine mother says her daughter, Nicole M. Dunham of Orrington, was called up to join the Minnesota National Guard as a convoy support medic in 2005—the same year Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz retired from the Minnesota National Guard in order to skip a deployment to Iraq.

“Nicole Marie Dunham went to war in place of the Governor of Minnesota,” said Mary Dunham in a Monday morning interview with WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler Show.

“Maybe not his rank, but my daughter from Maine went to war, and he didn’t, he didn’t fulfill his commitment. Nicole’s commitment was over. She went. No, she didn’t replace him specifically, but everybody had to move forward to fill a slot that he left.”

“Her commitment was to the state of Maine, then to the United States. She’s the only person that was in that unit, the one, [in the] 125th Field Artillery Battalion that wasn’t from there, and [Walz] didn’t go,” she said. 

Gov. Walz, selected last week to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running-mate for what is likely to be the Democratic 2024 presidential ticket, continues to face withering criticism for false claims he has made for nearly two decades about his military service. 

Although Walz did serve in the U.S. military for 25 years, he has subsequently embellished his rank and falsely claimed to have taken part in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 2005, Walz retired from the Minnesota National Guard weeks months before his unit was slated for deployment to Iraq — a deployment that saw the unit take multiple casualties. 

Dunham enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1998, completed training as an emergency, and subsequently served in the U.S. Army Reserve from until 2005 in 309th Combat Support Hospital Division.

Dunham received the Army Achievement Medal, National Service Defense Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, the Overseas Service Ribbon and the Armed Forces Reserves Medal, according to her family. 

Her obituary describes her call-up to join the Minnesota National Guard as follows: 

In 2005, She proudly served her country as a Specialist in the Operation Iraqi Freedom Campaign with 34th Inventory Division known as the Red Bulls. Her Mission was providing Medic support on convoys traveling from Tallil Airbase to Bagdad Airport as well has humanitarian missions for the people of Iraq. She was Honorably discharged in 2007.

Dunham passed away on Sept. 13, 2018. 

Although Dunham said her daughter was not killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom, she said Nicole was frequently in harm’s way and returned from her deployment a changed person.

“Nobody wants to go to war,” Mary Dunham said, of her daughter. “No one wants to go. She went.”

Even prior to the spotlight landing on Walz’s military record, Dunham’s presence in the unit was unusual because she was the only member of the unit who wasn’t from Minnesota. 

But Mary Dunham didn’t immediately connect her daughter’s service in the Minnesota unit to Walz’s early retirement until soldiers she had served with — other members of the so-called “Red Bulls” — began reaching out to her on Facebook. 

Nicole M. Dunham with other members of the Red Bulls

Gov. Tim Walz’s Stolen Valor

Several U.S. military veterans who knew Walz and served with Walz have confirmed that he has misrepresented, embellished, and distorted his military career during his subsequent career as a member of congress, governor, and now as a vice presidential candidate.

Since retiring and entering politics, Walz has consistently represented his rank as Command Sergeant Major; however, Walz never official received that rank due to his abrupt retirement.

Walz has often portrayed himself as a combat veteran by talking about carrying a firearm in theaters of war and by allowing people, such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), to refer to him as a combat veteran; however, his foreign service was limited to Italy.

Ret. Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas Behrends, the man who filled Walz’s suddenly vacated leadership position, has been outspoken about Walz embellishing his rank, telling Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that the truth behind the claim is “far darker than a lot of people think.”

“He’s used the rank that he never achieved in order to advance his political career,” Behrends said. “I mean, he still says he’s a retired command sergeant major to this day, and he’s not. He uses the rank of others to make it look like he’s a better person than he is.”

 

John Kolb, the now-retired Battalion Commander who ran Walz and Dunham’s former unit, also confirmed in a sharply worded Facebook post that Walz misrepresented his military service, specifically the timing and nature of his retirement.

“[W]hen the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real, he chose another path,” Kolb said.

According to Kolb, Walz retired early from the MNG, did not complete Sergeants Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract, and did not successfully complete any assignment as a Sergeant Major.

Kolb, who also confirmed that Behrends was selected to go in Walz’s place, said Behrends “ran toward and not away from the guns.”

While Kolb said he had no opinion or criticism of Walz’s prior 25 years of military service, he did make clear that Walz has subsequently exaggerated his rank.

“He did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignment as an E9,” Kolb said. 

“It is an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps that he continues to glom onto the title. I can sit in the cockpit of an airplane, it does not make me a pilot. Similarly, when the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real, he chose another path,” he said. 

[MDC 7,121]

7 minutes ago, squistion said:

See John McCain. 

Humayan Khan. William McRaven. Suckers and losers. It’s a pattern with Trump, and his acolytes.

[HellToupee 1,583]

4 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

The guy democrats called a racist, while simultaneously saying he was too white and too old? That John McCain? 

This guy

 

The Republican nominee for president didn’t have the “temperament” to be commander in chief, charged Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, adding that he “can’t stand” the guy. Moveon.org called him “reckless” and “dangerous.” Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., warned that the GOP candidate was a modern day George Wallace and his rhetoric “is playing with fire.”

[Hardcore troubadour 14,919]

10 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

This guy

 

The Republican nominee for president didn’t have the “temperament” to be commander in chief, charged Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, adding that he “can’t stand” the guy. Moveon.org called him “reckless” and “dangerous.” Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., warned that the GOP candidate was a modern day George Wallace and his rhetoric “is playing with fire.”

George Wallace. Wow. 

[HellToupee 1,583]

1 hour ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

George Wallace. Wow. 

Democrat hero John Lewis 

[Fireballer 2,639]

9 hours ago, edjr said:

Didn't Bush and Kerry and I am sure a slew of others lie about military chit (brian williams) 

Hillary took heavy gunfire

[seafoam1 2,799]

21 minutes ago, Fireballer said:

Hillary took heavy gunfire

Benghazi was a great military victory for the liberals. 

[squistion 1,944]

25 minutes ago, Fireballer said:

Hillary took heavy gunfire

And her military service was just as honorable as that of Trump. 

[HellToupee 1,583]

9 minutes ago, squistion said:

And her military service was just as honorable as that of Trump. 

Same as slick Willie , W and Joementia

[Hardcore troubadour 14,919]

17 minutes ago, squistion said:

And her military service was just as honorable as that of Trump. 

Wrong. Trump was the commander in chief for four years.  Hillary never was. Boom.  

[Sean Mooney 1,937]

2 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

The guy democrats called a racist, while simultaneously saying he was too white and too old? That John McCain? 

The John McCain that Donald Trump said ""He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured."

The same John McCain that when he died Donald Trump said ‘We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,’ and complained about flags at half staff saying "‘What the f--- are we doing that for? Guy was a f---ing loser,’

 

Yeah the very same John McCain....now go back to clutching your pearls over military claims of a person when the guy you support drug an actual veteran and a POW, and a Silver Star recipient, a Purple Heart recipient, a Legion of Merit winner, and a Bronze Star Medal recipient through the mud...were you outraged at all that? 

[IndyColtsFan 325]

At least he didn't lie about almost dying aboard a helicopter with Willie Brown.

[IndyColtsFan 325]

1 hour ago, Sean Mooney said:

The John McCain that Donald Trump said ""He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured."

The same John McCain that when he died Donald Trump said ‘We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,’ and complained about flags at half staff saying "‘What the f--- are we doing that for? Guy was a f---ing loser,’

 

Yeah the very same John McCain....now go back to clutching your pearls over military claims of a person when the guy you support drug an actual veteran and a POW, and a Silver Star recipient, a Purple Heart recipient, a Legion of Merit winner, and a Bronze Star Medal recipient through the mud...were you outraged at all that? 

Total pwnage of HT.

[seafoam1 2,799]

5 minutes ago, IndyColtsFan said:

At least he didn't lie about almost dying aboard a helicopter with Willie Brown.

Beware, cat lady squawking. 

[Mike Hunt 261]

The Harris campaign did not do their homework and due diligence on Walz.

[MDC 7,121]

12 hours ago, IndyColtsFan said:

Total pwnage of HT.

Must be a day that ends in a Y.

[squistion 1,944]

25 minutes ago, Mike Hunt said:

The Harris campaign did not do their homework and due diligence on Walz.

Yeah, they missed those photos of him in drag...Oh, wait...

[seafoam1 2,799]

6 hours ago, Mike Hunt said:

The Harris campaign did not do their homework and due diligence on Walz.

Yeah. They focked up bad. 

[The Real timschochet 6,402]

7 hours ago, Mike Hunt said:

The Harris campaign did not do their homework and due diligence on Walz.

No I think they did their homework quite well actually. 
 

Walz today in Los Angeles: “I was proud to serve my country. And I don’t think those in uniform should be critical of others in uniform. So to all those in uniform, including my opponent,  I have only one thing to say: thank you for your service and sacrifice.” 
 

Standing ovation. Dude is a really fine speaker and that’s part of the reason that this attack is falling on its face. Vance just looks more and more ridiculous everytime he offers it. Nobody is critical of Walz; most people just look at Vance, shake their heads and think “what a jerk.” 

[jerryskids 6,557]

Another example of Walz "misspeaking" about his service.  Anyone could make this mistake, right?   

 

 

[HellToupee 1,583]

F this guy

 

[MDC 7,121]

9 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

Another example of Walz "misspeaking" about his service.  Anyone could make this mistake, right?   

 

 

So I watched this video twice and can’t tell where Walz said that he was in Afghanistan. Is there a time stamp or quote?

[jerryskids 6,557]

2 minutes ago, MDC said:

So I watched this video twice and can’t tell where Walz said that he was in Afghanistan. Is there a time stamp or quote?

At the very beginning he mentions being "OEF".

An OEF veteran is a veteran who served in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), a military campaign that began in Afghanistan in October 2001 as part of the Global War on Terror. The war's goal was to establish stable governments in Afghanistan and Iraq and to end terrorism in both countries. OEF veterans may have been exposed to environmental hazards during their service, such as chromium, CARC paint, depleted uranium, and heat and cold injuries. These exposures may lead to long-term health issues.