Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been taking one body blow shot after another as more and more evidence emerges that he has lied for years about his military service. And now his former commander is blasting him and even his congressional challenge coin is shown to be a lie.
If you are unaware what a challenge coin is, it is a coin that soldiers and politicians give out to people they meet as a memento of the meeting. They started as special mementos given out by officers of higher rank, but the concept has trickled down to all sorts of people and positions, including politicians.
With that said, it appears that Tim Walz included the Army patch of the command sergeant major on his challenge coin when he was a Democrat in the House of Representatives. This basically states that he retired out of the Minnesota National Guard at that rank… but he didn’t.
Walz was working toward being a command Sgt. major, but never completed the requirements for that rank and therefore was never officially confirmed to that rank.
Yet, he has been lying for years about having achieved the rank. And he even illegitimately put it on his challenge coin.
Hi, @Tim_Walz and @KamalaHarris—
Just wondering, did you also “misprint” your rank as Command Sergeant Major on your Congressional Challenge Coin?cc: @NBCNews https://t.co/KIILqMgj9S pic.twitter.com/fkZrb4luHv
— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) August 11, 2024
But that isn’t the only blow to his reputation this week. His former battalion commander also released a message raking Walz over the coals for the lies he has disgorged over his military career.
With a tag reading “notmyCSM” (which stands for “not my command sergeant major”), Lt. Colonel John Kolb destroyed Walz.
“I do not regret that Tim Walz retired early from the Minnesota Army National Guard, did not complete the Sergeants Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract or did not successfully complete any assignment as a Sergeant Major,” Kolb wrote in a social media post.
“Unwittingly, he got out of the way for better leadership. Thomas Behrends was the right leader at the right time. He sacrificed to answer the call, leaving his family, business and farming-partner brother to train, lead and care for soldiers. Like a great leader he ran toward and not away from the guns,” Kolb added coldly.
🚨 Tim Walz gets TORCHED by his battalion commander pic.twitter.com/Z82VuCsdrB
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 11, 2024
“I have no opinion of Mr. Walz’s decision to leave service at the time he did. It was his right to retire early. I also have no criticism of his service as an E7 and E8 in the MNARNG. By all accounts and on the record, he was a competent Chief of Firing Battery/Gunnery Sergeant and First Sergeant, Kolb wrote.
“I cannot say the same of his service sitting, frocked, in the CSM chair. He did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignment as an E9. 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,” Kolb wrote.
Tim Walz has been lying for decades about his service. It remains to be seen if voters will care.
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