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shotten99

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Mon Aug 12, 2024, 11:39 PM Aug 2024

Minnesota National Guard officials weigh in on Walz service

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.”


https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/08/12/minnesota-national-guard-officials-weigh-in-on-walz-service/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0poZYat0s4M-av2uWKlFvlV370ZrcFfd1iZDSw8SryVSU5Aq0F-2iVFgk_aem_9DAGsy2mGncNrGd7avtKkQ

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Minnesota National Guard officials weigh in on Walz service (Original Post) shotten99 Aug 2024 OP
Vance, if he had any self-awareness...ought to be ashamed of himself. OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2024 #1
That makes it official Figarosmom Aug 2024 #2

OAITW r.2.0

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1. Vance, if he had any self-awareness...ought to be ashamed of himself.
Mon Aug 12, 2024, 11:47 PM
Aug 2024

Carrying water for a bone-spurred draft dodger who calls our war dead "suckers and losers". Go fuck yerself, JD.

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