{"id":2323608,"date":"2024-08-13T08:14:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T12:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-walz-didnt-misspeak-about-his-military-service-he-lied\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T08:19:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T12:19:31","slug":"tim-walz-didnt-misspeak-about-his-military-service-he-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-walz-didnt-misspeak-about-his-military-service-he-lied\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Walz Didn&#8217;t &#8216;Misspeak&#8217; About His Military Service \u2014 He Lied"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftim-walz-didnt-misspeak-about-his-military-service-he-lied%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2323608&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses\u2062 the controversy \u200dsurrounding Governor Tim Walz&#8217;s \u2064military\u2062 service, \u200cparticularly \u200cin the context of the upcoming elections. \u2063Despite having served honorably as a member of \u200bthe Minnesota National Guard, Walz has \u200dfaced criticism for allegedly \u200dmisrepresenting his deployment and military\u2063 rank. While he\u200d served during the War on Terror, his \u2064role was not in a combat zone but rather in Italy, and he retired \u200das a Master Sergeant (E8) instead of \u200cthe claimed Command Sergeant Major (E9). The article \u2064emphasizes that such \u200bmisrepresentations\u2063 could undermine trust and raise questions about Walz&#8217;s integrity, especially as \u2062he is\u2063 a candidate alongside Vice\u2064 President Kamala Harris. The\u2064 author argues that declaring oneself to have served \u200cin combat \u200dwhen one has not is misleading and reflective of deeper ethical\u200b concerns in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swiss-billionaire-pumps-208-million-into-left-wing-groups-that-help-democrats-win-elections-nyt-report\/\" title=\"Swiss Billionaire Pumps 8 Million Into Left-Wing Groups That Help Democrats Win Elections: NYT Report\">political campaigning<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Over the past several days there&rsquo;s been quite a bit of discussion and debate about the military service of Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn. But let&rsquo;s cut through the noise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a veteran of two wars, I can tell you that there are three things old soldiers never forget: the name of their basic training drill sergeant, the rank at which they were discharged or retired, and their time deployed in a combat zone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walz seems to have trouble with the latter two.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris&rsquo; running mate has made his military service an issue in this election because he has &mdash; in the words of some of his political allies &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4822007-former-defense-secretary-mark-esper-tim-walz-military-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;misspoken&rdquo;<\/a> about his service in the National Guard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please understand, I&rsquo;m not questioning his service to our nation, which was by all accounts honorable. It&rsquo;s his repeated &ldquo;misrepresentation&rdquo; of his deployment status and his military rank that have caused Walz and the Democrats political heartburn, and rightly so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walz&rsquo;s former unit deployed to a war zone; he did not. He <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/08\/tim-walzs-lies-about-his-military-record-include-inflating-his-rank-and-ducking-deployment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">retired<\/a> in 2005, just a few months before his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-prisoner-swap-with-russia-was-ridiculously-lopsided\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s Prisoner Swap With Russia Was Ridiculously Lopsided\">fellow soldiers&#038;nbsp<\/a>;were sent off to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of service members have never deployed to a combat zone. That doesn&rsquo;t lessen their service to our great nation. But on occasion over the years Walz has, at the very least, suggested that he did deploy to a combat zone. As a member of the Minnesota National Guard, Walz was indeed deployed in the War on Terror, but he was a long way from combat. Far removed from the unforgiving heat and terrain of Iraq and Afghanistan, Walz served a tour of duty in Italy. His other overseas military service included a stint in Norway.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Walz campaigned for governor with a gun-control message that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/09\/tim-walz-abandoned-his-national-guard-comrades-when-they-needed-him-most\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inflated<\/a> his service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war,&rdquo; he said of proposals to ban assault rifles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After taking heat for his misleading assertion, the Harris-Walz campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/walz-military-record-weapons-harris-video-89fc6fa0c5f51c0ba657b8f808afcd87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">now says<\/a> the governor &ldquo;misspoke&rdquo; at the time &mdash; in a video widely circulated by team Harris.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Again, a soldier who has been deployed to a combat zone knows it. Those who haven&rsquo;t should not claim otherwise. Doing so isn&rsquo;t misspeaking; it&rsquo;s lying.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walz has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/09\/tim-walz-misrepresented-his-military-service-he-needs-to-answer-some-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long stated<\/a> he is a retired Command Sergeant Major (CSM) &mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;or an enlisted rank of E9. In fact, he never retired as an E9. He retired as a Master Sergeant (MSG) &mdash; or an enlisted rank of E8.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Retiring from military service as an E8 is a sign of a solid military career. So why has the vice presidential candidate &ldquo;misrepresented&rdquo; his military rank and deployment status for the past 19 years? At what point is he no longer &ldquo;misrepresenting&rdquo; and instead lying?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just a few months after Walz left his Iraq War-bound unit to run for Congress, John Kolb took over as lieutenant colonel of Walz&rsquo;s National Guard unit. He called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-real-winner-of-last-nights-debate-was-gavin-newsom\/\" title=\"The Real Winner Of Last Night\u2019s Debate Was Gavin Newsom\">governor&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s embellishment &ldquo;an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps that he continues to glom onto the title.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignment as an E9,&rdquo; Kolb&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/08\/12\/us-news\/ex-commander-of-tim-walzs-unit-joins-stolen-valor-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;in a post, punctuated with #notmyCSM. &ldquo;I can sit in the cockpit of an airplane, it does not make me a pilot.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>NEW&mdash;Colonel John Kolb, Minnesota Army National Guard, Tim Walz&rsquo;s battalion commander and direct supervisor, absolutely DESTROYS Walz&rsquo;s deployment dodging and his continued lying about his rank as Command Sergeant Major. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V2Gq2Khrvz\">pic.twitter.com\/V2Gq2Khrvz<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1822728074582184196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It&rsquo;s an insult to veterans when someone &mdash; even a fellow veteran &mdash; lies about their service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the coming weeks, Walz&rsquo;s allies in the Democratic Party will attempt to spin all this and portray Harris&rsquo; No. 2 as the victim. Please don&rsquo;t fall for it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Timothy Walz, MSG (USA Retired) could have easily stopped this years ago and set the record straight, but for his own personal gain he decided to continue his charade.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is not a simple embellishment of a war story to impress friends. This has been a false narrative for nearly 20 years perpetrated by Walz himself &mdash; and for that, he needs to be held accountable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tony Kurtz is a Republican state representative in the Wisconsin Assembly and a veteran of the Persian Gulf War and the War in Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days, there has been significant discussion and debate regarding the military service of Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn. However, let&#8217;s focus on the key points. As a veteran of two wars, I can attest that there are three things that seasoned soldiers always remember: their basic training drill sergeant&#8217;s name, their discharge or retirement rank, and their deployment experience in a combat zone. It appears that Walz struggles with the latter two aspects.<\/p>\n<p>The vice presidential candidate has made his military service a focal point in this election due to what some political allies describe as his &#8220;misstatements&#8221; about his National Guard service. To clarify, I am not questioning the honor of his service to our country; rather, it is his repeated misrepresentation of both his deployment status and military rank that have caused political issues for him and the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Walz&#8217;s former unit was deployed to a war zone; however, he was not among them. He retired in 2005 just months before his fellow soldiers were sent to Iraq. Many service members have never been deployed to combat zones without diminishing their contributions to our nation. Yet over time, Walz has suggested\u2014at least implicitly\u2014that he did serve in such areas during his time with the Minnesota National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>While he did participate in operations related to the War on Terror as part of the National Guard, he served far from actual combat situations\u2014in Italy during one tour and previously in Norway during another assignment.<\/p>\n<p>During his 2018 gubernatorial campaign focused on gun control measures tied to claims about weapons used in war\u2014claims which exaggerated his military experience\u2014Walz stated: \u201cWe can make sure those weapons of war that I carried in war are only carried in war.\u201d After facing backlash for this misleading statement, Walz\u2019s campaign later claimed he had &#8220;misspoken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A soldier who has truly served in a combat zone knows it well; those who haven\u2019t should refrain from making such claims because doing so crosses into dishonesty rather than mere error.<\/p>\n<p>Walz often refers to himself as a retired Command Sergeant Major (CSM), an E9 rank; however, he actually retired as a Master Sergeant (MSG), an E8 rank\u2014a commendable achievement but still lower than what he&#8217;s claimed for years. This raises questions about why he continues misrepresenting both his military rank and deployment status after nearly two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after leaving behind an Iraq-bound unit for Congress candidacy purposes, John Kolb took command of Walz\u2019s National Guard unit and criticized Walz\u2019s embellishments as disrespectful towards noncommissioned officers who rightfully earned their titles: \u201cHe did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignment as an E9,\u201d Kolb remarked online using #notmyCSM.<\/p>\n<p>It is disrespectful when anyone\u2014even fellow veterans\u2014falsely represents their military experiences. In upcoming weeks, expect allies within the Democratic Party to attempt damage control by portraying Harris\u2019 running mate as a victim; don\u2019t be swayed by this narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Walz could have clarified these matters long ago but chose instead to maintain this facade for personal benefit over accountability\u2014a false narrative perpetuated by him for nearly 20 years deserves scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Kurtz is a Republican state representative from Wisconsin Assembly and also served during both Persian Gulf War and Iraq War<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3357,"featured_media":2323609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/53914410922_76b4d2f876_k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7380,8049,37484,5894,36113],"class_list":["post-2323608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-misinformation","tag-accountability","tag-military-service","tag-politics","tag-tim-walz"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/53914410922_76b4d2f876_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2323609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}