A person at the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Caucus Meeting at the DNC introduced Tim Walz as “Command Sergeant Major.”
The announcer also called him a joyful warrior. *eye roll*
I mean, how many times do the people in Walz’s National Guard battalion have to come out and correct everyone, including him?
In 2016, Thomas Behrends, a retired Command Sergeant Major of the Minnesota National Guard, urged Walz to stop referring to himself as a “retired command sergeant major” because he did not have that title when he retired in 2005:
In 2016, Behrends penned a private letter to Walz, thanking him for his service but imploring him to stop using the title, which he said Walz didn’t earn.“It saddens me that after your long career in the National Guard, that you did not fulfill the conditions of your promotion to Command Sergeant Major,” said the letter, a copy of which was provided to ABC News. “It’s quite a title to have, when it has been earned. I would hope that you haven’t been using the rank for political gain, but that is how it appears.”
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