{"id":2328340,"date":"2024-08-21T12:13:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-walz-reenlisted-after-9-11-is-the-latest-lie-about-his-record\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T12:17:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:17:53","slug":"tim-walz-reenlisted-after-9-11-is-the-latest-lie-about-his-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-walz-reenlisted-after-9-11-is-the-latest-lie-about-his-record\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tim Walz Reenlisted After 9\/11&#8217; Is The Latest Lie About His Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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-reenlisted-after-9-11-is-the-latest-lie-about-his-record%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=2328340&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>Minnesota\u2063 Governor Tim Walz,\u200b recently announced as\u2064 Kamala Harris&#8217;s running mate, has \u200cfaced scrutiny\u200c regarding his military service claims. Presented as a dedicated patriot and a career National \u2062Guardsman, Walz&#8217;s narrative suggests he reenlisted after the September\u200d 11 attacks out of a sense of \u200dduty. However, investigations reveal inconsistencies in \u2064his account, including false claims about his combat service and military\u200d rank. Walz\u200d did not retire as a command sergeant \u200cmajor but as a master sergeant, having \u200dleft before completing\u2062 the necessary training for the higher rank. Furthermore, he was not eligible to retire immediately after \u206320 \u2063years\u2063 of service, contradicting his assertions of \u200breenlisting post-9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his background, media \u200dcoverage \u2062has perpetuated Walz&#8217;s version of events \u2064without sufficient fact-checking.\u200c Questions remain \u200babout\u200c the\u2064 accuracy of his military\u200d records and the timeline of his reenlistment. The\u200d article calls for\u2063 greater\u200d transparency regarding\u2062 his military service, suggesting that\u2062 Walz release his complete military records to clarify the discrepancies in\u200b his narrative.  <\/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>When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was <a href=\"https:\/\/kamalaharris.com\/meet-governor-tim-walz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">introduced<\/a> as Kamala Harris&rsquo; running mate, the campaign presented him as a bonified patriot, a career National Guardsman who retired as a command sergeant major after 24 years of faithful service to his country, including a deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Walz enlisted two days after his 17th birthday in April 1981. As Walz tells it, when the planes hit the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, the attack compelled him to reenlist in lieu of his 20-year retirement, to carry out his patriotic duty to serve his country in a time of war. He then retired in 2005, years after his service obligation for retirement was satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>But in fact, just like claims that he served in war, or retired as a command sergeant major, the story as Walz tells it is not true.<\/p>\n<h2>Serving in Combat and Rank<\/h2>\n<p>Walz is a serial fabulist. On Aug. 6, the same day Harris announced Walz as her choice for running mate, the Harris campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KamalaHQ\/status\/1820918063966962143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted a video on X<\/a> in which Walz stated, &ldquo;We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/tim-walz-misspoke-discussed-using-weapons-war-campaign-says-rcna166038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Turns out Walz &ldquo;misspoke.&rdquo;<\/a> To put it in more natural terms, he lied. On day one, the first video of Kamala Harris&rsquo; vice-presidential candidate released by the campaign contained within it a blatant lie about his military service that stepped right up to the line of what most military veterans would consider to be stolen valor.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign&rsquo;s pathetic explanation &mdash; that &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/08\/08\/nx-s1-5068668\/vance-walz-stolen-valor-military-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In his 24 years of service, the Governor carried, fired and trained others to use weapons of war innumerable times<\/a>&rdquo; &mdash; did little to assuage the spidey senses of millions of normal people.<\/p>\n<p>Other stories about Walz&rsquo;s service began to fall apart under the enhanced scrutiny. He did not retire as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-ignominy-of-master-sergeant-timothy-walz\/\" title=\"The Ignominy Of Master Sergeant Timothy Walz\">command sergeant major &#038;mdash<\/a>; he retired as a master sergeant, because he left before fulfilling his contractual obligation to complete the Sergeants Major Academy, a requirement to hold the rank to which he was conditionally frocked in September 2004.<\/p>\n<h2>Reenlisting after 9\/11<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jabeale\/status\/1822511525975793858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My initial reaction to the narrative<u> that Walz reenlisted after 9\/11 out of a sense of patriotism <\/u>was confusion<\/a>, as his date of enlistment was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/21\/us\/politics\/tim-walz-military-service.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">April 1981<\/a> and one would expect, absent unusual circumstances involving extensions or breaks in service, his 20-year retirement date would have been April 2001 and any reenlistment or extension would&rsquo;ve had to have been executed in April, months prior to Sept. 11, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>So I looked into it. On Nov. 2, 2009, Walz sat down with a historian from the Library of Congress Veterans History Project to memorialize his service as a military veteran. During the course of Walz&rsquo;s description of his service to his country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/afc2001001.69125\/#item-service_history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he related the following regarding his decision to reenlist after the 9\/11 attacks:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My 20 years was actually, ironically enough, up that week of September 11, 2001, because of the time I had off and made up, so I reenlisted like, I think, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-bill-filed-in-florida-would-allow-video-audio-recording-in-classrooms\/\" title=\"WATCH: Bill Filed in Florida Would Allow Video, Audio Recording in Classrooms\">vast majority people<\/a> did with a real uncertainty but wanting to with a real sense of wanting to do something.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That was a lie.<\/p>\n<p>But there&rsquo;s more. Three years earlier, in response to a letter to the editor of the Winona Daily News written by Tom Hagen, an Iraqi war combat veteran and former colleague of Walz in the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery of the Minnesota Army National Guard, in which Hagen questioned Walz&rsquo;s decision to retire within two months of receiving a warning order for his battalion to deploy to Iraq, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/47jjk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Walz wrote the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>After completing 20 years of service in 2001, I re-enlisted to serve our country for an additional four years following Sept. 11 and retired the year before my battalion was deployed to Iraq in order to run for Congress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That, too, was a lie. Both of those quotes have been exclusively linked in news media stories as citations to support reporting that Walz &ldquo;reenlisted after 9\/11 when he could have retired, having reached 20 years of service in 2001.&rdquo; If you Google &ldquo;Tim Walz reenlisted after 9\/11,&rdquo; you&rsquo;ll find pages upon pages of publications parroting the story Walz has told since his retirement in 2005. It&rsquo;s not true.<\/p>\n<p>CNN&rsquo;s Dana Bash, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N7GiUYYJh7w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">during an interview with GOP vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance,<\/a> repeated the Walz lie as follows: &ldquo;Governor Walz served 24 years &mdash; he even stayed after he could&rsquo;ve retired because of 9\/11 &mdash; more than the country asked of him. Do you honor his service?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Walz did not complete 20 years of service in September 2001. He didn&rsquo;t &ldquo;stay after he could&rsquo;ve retired&rdquo; because <em>he wasn&rsquo;t eligible to retire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Walz&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StolenValor1\/status\/1820863640242684021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Report<\/a> of Separation and Record of Service, he was put on &ldquo;ING&rdquo; &mdash; Inactive National Guard &mdash; from Dec.<sup> <\/sup>1, 1989, to July 12, 1990, a total of 7 months and 12 days of inactive service. Walz was reportedly teaching school in China during that period.<\/p>\n<p>The Report of Separation also denotes a discrepancy between his &ldquo;Total Service for Pay&rdquo; and &ldquo;Total Service for Retirement Pay.&rdquo; That difference is 7 months and 12 days.<\/p>\n<p>Had Walz wanted to retire after 20 years of service, he would not be eligible to do so until at least 7 months and 12 days after his enlistment anniversary date of April 8, 1981, barring further breaks in service or failure to acquire training and participation points to meet his annual obligations.<\/p>\n<p>This would have put his eligible retirement date at Nov. 20, 2001, at the earliest &mdash; more than a month after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. At a minimum, Walz was blatantly lying in his Library of Congress Veterans Project interview about being eligible to retire, &ldquo;ironically,&rdquo; the week of Sept. 11, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>But there&rsquo;s more.<\/p>\n<p>In response to media inquiries regarding the confusion around Walz&rsquo;s service record, Army Col. Ryan Cochran, Minnesota National Guard&rsquo;s Director of Manpower and Personnel, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kristina_wong\/status\/1825258455994646859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a> the following information to the media on Aug. 13, 2024:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Media Members-<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<strong>Governor Tim Walz received his notification of eligibility for retirement on August 3, 2002.<\/strong> He was promoted to sergeant major (E-9) on September 17, 2004. and immediately began serving as the command sergeant major for the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery while his packet was submitted to the National Guard Bureau to appoint him to command sergeant major (E-9). Once approved by NGB. he was laterally appointed to command sergeant major (E-9) on April 1, 2005. He retired from the Minnesota National Guard on May 16, 2005. Our records do not indicate when he made his request to retire. Leadership reviews and approves all requests to retire. He was administratively reduced to master sergeant (E-8) on May 15, 2005, because he did not complete all required U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy coursework.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Take note of the first line &mdash; &ldquo;Governor Tim Walz received his notification of eligibility for retirement on August 3, 2002.&rdquo; This date apparently reflects additional service requirements in addition to making up his inactive time in China.<\/p>\n<p>Walz would have been aware that he wasn&rsquo;t eligible to retire &ldquo;the same week as Sept. 11, 2001,&rdquo; nor even the same year.<\/p>\n<p>He simply wasn&rsquo;t eligible to retire in 2001. The story we&rsquo;ve been told by Walz, the Harris campaign, and the media is riddled with lies and misrepresentations of his service. He has, in two short weeks, proven to be an inveterate liar.<\/p>\n<h2>Release His Military Records<\/h2>\n<p>As is always the case when one leads with a lie, the question that needs to be answered is obvious &mdash; what else is he lying about? Will Bash and the hundreds of publications that perpetuated this lie correct the record and inform the public that the National Guard has refuted Walz&rsquo;s characterization of the circumstances of his reenlistment?<\/p>\n<p>Reporters with any sense of journalistic responsibility will want to ask Walz to either release all of his military records or at least reveal the date of his reenlistment in 2001 and the date he submitted his retirement papers in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Did he reenlist before (in his anniversary month of April) or after 9\/11? Did he extend his service in April 1991 to cover the time he needed to retire at 20 years? How many years did he reenlist for? Did he receive a bonus for reenlisting and, if so, did he pay back the portion of the bonus for the time he cut off when he retired early?<\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s clear is that the Walz we were introduced to weeks ago &mdash; the soldier who reenlisted after 9\/11 out of a patriotic duty to serve his country at war, who carried weapons in war, who deployed &ldquo;in support of Operation Enduring Freedom&rdquo; and retired as a command sergeant major &mdash; bears little resemblance to the Walz we have come to know later.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vp-pick-tim-walz-accused-of-stolen-valor-by-former-military-colleagues-he-abandoned-us\/\" title=\"VP Pick Tim Walz Accused of &#039;Stolen Valor&#039; by Former Military Colleagues: &#039;He Abandoned Us&#039;\">retired command sergeant major<\/a> is now a retired master sergeant. The patriotic reenlistment after 9\/11 when he could have retired is now a mandatory reenlistment in 2001 after failing to meet his service requirement to retire after 20 years. The war veteran who carried weapons in war in support of Operation Enduring Freedom is now a soldier who deployed to Vicenza, Italy, to pull guard duty on front gates and crosswalks.<\/p>\n<p>Walz said that he&rsquo;s proud &mdash; &ldquo;damn proud&rdquo; &mdash; of his military service. But it&rsquo;s clear that Walz&rsquo;s pride is reserved for the noble service of the imaginary retired sergeant major, combat veteran he created for sale to the public &mdash; we&rsquo;ve heard a lot about that guy. He doesn&rsquo;t seem to have a sliver of pride for the real Walz &mdash; the retired master sergeant who left his unit two months before his only opportunity to serve his country and lead his troops in war. He hid that Walz from the public for two decades.<\/p>\n<p>There will be more &mdash; it&rsquo;s inevitable when dealing with a compulsive liar. What remains to be seen is whether or not the media has any interest in seeking answers to the obvious questions surrounding the legend of retired Master Sergeant Tim Walz.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jason Beale (a pseudonym) is a retired U.S. Army interrogator and strategic debriefer with 30 years experience in military and intelligence interrogation and human intelligence collection operations. He&#8217;s on X @jabeale.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris&#8217;s running mate, the campaign portrayed him as a genuine patriot\u2014a lifelong National Guardsman who retired as a command sergeant major after 24 years of dedicated service, which included a deployment for Operation Enduring Freedom. Walz joined the military just two days after turning 17 in April 1981. He claims that the September 11 attacks in 2001 motivated him to reenlist instead of retiring after his initial service commitment, feeling it was his patriotic duty during wartime. He ultimately retired in 2005, well after meeting his retirement obligations.<\/p>\n<p>However, many aspects of Walz&#8217;s narrative about his military service are misleading or false. For instance, on August 6\u2014the same day he was introduced by Harris\u2014Walz stated in a campaign video that he had carried weapons &#8220;in war.&#8221; This statement turned out to be inaccurate; it can be more accurately described as a lie. The campaign\u2019s weak justification\u2014that he had handled and trained others with weapons throughout his career\u2014did little to convince skeptics.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigation revealed inconsistencies regarding Walz&#8217;s rank upon retirement; he did not retire as a command sergeant major but rather as a master sergeant because he left before completing necessary training for that rank.<\/p>\n<p>Initially skeptical about Walz\u2019s claim of reenlisting out of patriotism post-9\/11 due to timing issues with his enlistment and retirement dates, I researched further. In an interview from November 2, 2009, with the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, Walz inaccurately stated that he could have retired right around September 11 due to having completed twenty years of service at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, three years prior in response to criticism from an Iraqi war veteran regarding his decision to retire shortly before their battalion was set to deploy for Iraq, Walz claimed he re-enlisted for four more years following September 11 and then retired just before deployment. This too has been proven false.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous media outlets have repeated these claims without verification; even CNN\u2019s Dana Bash echoed them during an interview without questioning their accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>According to official records from the Minnesota National Guard released on August 13, it is clear that Governor Walz received notification for retirement eligibility only on August 3, 2002\u2014not around September 11 or even within that year\u2014and thus could not have been eligible for retirement at those times.<\/p>\n<p>The discrepancies suggest significant misrepresentation regarding when and why Walz served and retired from the National Guard. Given this pattern of deception surrounding key aspects of his military history\u2014such as claiming combat experience when it appears there is none\u2014it raises serious questions about what else may be untrue about him.<\/p>\n<p>It would be prudent for journalists covering this story to press Governor Walz either for full disclosure of all military records or at least clarification on specific dates related to both reenlistment and retirement paperwork submissions. <\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, while presenting himself as someone who selflessly served during wartime out of deep patriotism\u2014a narrative crafted by both himself and those promoting him\u2014the reality reveals someone whose actual record does not align with such heroic portrayals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3373,"featured_media":2328341,"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\/4096px-Tim_Walz_is_sworn_in_as_Minnesotas_41st_governor_at_the_Fitzgeral_Theater_in_St_Paul_Minnesota-scaled-e1724251807842.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7380,15532,38801,36113,38802],"class_list":["post-2328340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-misinformation","tag-9-11","tag-political-record","tag-tim-walz","tag-veteran-affairs"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4096px-Tim_Walz_is_sworn_in_as_Minnesotas_41st_governor_at_the_Fitzgeral_Theater_in_St_Paul_Minnesota-scaled-e1724251807842.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328340","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\/3373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2328341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}