WALZ SKIPPED TOWN KNOWING IN ADVANCE HE WAS GOING TO IRAQ

The true timeline of Walz’s National Guard departure after 24 years of service looks like this: He filed to run for Congress in February 2005. In March, the military raised the possibility of his unit being deployed to Iraq. Two months later, Walz officially retired. Two months after that, his old unit was notified of its mobilization.

It doesn’t matter when he put in for retirement, could have been two years prior, but the fact is he didn’t have the guts to enter a war zone. Secondly, he initially lied when he said, “carried weapons into war.” 

Retired National Guard member alleges Walz left his unit in CNN interview: ‘He went around me’

Walz’s military career has been heavily scrutinized since he became Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate

 By Gabriel Hays Fox News

Tim Walz’s former military superior made claims that called into question the Minnesota governor’s conduct in the U.S. National Guard during a CNN interview.

During his interview with CNN, former Minnesota National Guard Command Sgt. Maj. Doug Julin appeared to bolster criticism that Walz abandoned the unit with his account of the former Guardsman going around him to leave the National Guard before his team went to Iraq.

He relayed to CNN anchor Laura Coates that Walz and the whole unit – “including my boss, commander, and the command team” – had multiple meetings to discuss deployment months before Walz sought retirement.

According to the former sergeant major, Walz was at each of these meetings. Julin also asserted that in the lead up to deployment Walz assured him that he was going to join the battalion in Iraq.

However, he told Coates that in June 2005, he found out that Walz had quit without telling him, having gotten permission to retire from a higher-level officer – a break in protocol, according to Julin.
“Tim Walz knew the process and procedures, he went around me and above and beyond me… basically went in there to get somebody to back him… it was just a backdoor process,” he told Coates.

KAMALA HARRIS’ TREATMENT OF STAFF UNDER SCRUTINY AS REPORTS OF POOR OFFICE CULTURE RESURFACE

Walz’s 24-year National Guard career has been heavily scrutinized since Vice President Harris announced him as her running mate. Critics have accused Walz of abandoning his unit just before it went to Iraq.

In a statement recently given to Fox News, the Minnesota National Guard said that Walz’s unit was not given deployment orders to Iraq until July, and he had put his retirement papers in five to seven months prior to his retirement in May 2005.

Walz’s 24-year National Guard career has been heavily scrutinized since Vice President Harris announced him as her running mate. Critics have accused Walz of abandoning his unit just before it went to Iraq.