Tim Walz never served as a command sergeant major in the National Guard.
Everyone knows this, but the DNC introduced Walz as a command sergeant major.
Thomas Behrends, who served with Walz in the National Guard, earned the title of Command Sergeant Major and retired with it.
Behrends and others in the battalion have been calling out Walz since his first congressional run in 2005.
In 2016, Behrends 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.”
In 2009, Iraq David Thul brought concerns to Walz’s congressional office in Minnesota after he saw pictures of Walz holding a sign that said “Enduring Freedom Veterans for Kerry” in 2004.
That title is only awarded to those who “served on the ground in Afghanistan during the Global War on Terrorism.”
Thul taped his talks with Walz’s aide, who said she was “not aware” of him ever serving in Afghanistan.
Thul explained to the aide that “there’s a huge difference between being deployed to a base in Italy and being in a combat zone in Afghanistan.”
In 2018, Behrends and Paul Herr, another retired Command Sergeant Major, slammed Walz during his first run for governor.
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