A former National Guard colleague of Tim Walz’s told Alpha News that a nuclear manual went missing after the latter returned from China:
According to the retired soldier, Walz had just returned from another trip to China around the time when the manual went missing. He alleges Walz was one of the few with access to the building where the top-secret manual was stored and was “often the only one there.” The former battalion member believes Walz stole the nuclear SOP manual and later returned it.Alpha News asked why the missing manual was never reported. The former battalion member explained there was frustration at the time within the unit over Walz “double-dipping,” as he was holding a full-time teaching job while also being expected to serve full time with the unit. He claims that Walz frequently neglected key duties, such as recruitment and payroll, which allegedly raised concerns to the point that a superior had to investigate. The former soldier stated that the unit was more focused on those issues, and when the manual eventually reappeared, it went unreported. In hindsight, the soldier believes he should have reported it when it first went missing but feared repercussions for not addressing it sooner.
The 1-168th Field Artillery, Walz’s National Guard unit, started using the M109A5 self-propelled howitzer in 1995.
The weapon could fire nuclear artillery shells.
The former colleague also said Walz’s behavior changed when the manual went missing:
According to Walz’s former National Guard colleague, around the time the nuclear SOP manual went missing, Walz was pulled over by a Nebraska state trooper for driving 96 mph in a 55-mph zone. The officer noted a strong odor of alcohol, and Walz failed both field sobriety and breath tests. He was booked into the county jail and his lawyer later stated Walz believed someone was chasing him.
Alpha News pointed out that people had to exchange information in person or through the mail in 1995.
Walz lied about the 1995 speeding incident during his first Congressional run in 2005. His campaign told the press that he did not drink that night, claiming hearing loss caused a misunderstanding.
But the state trooper took Walz to a hospital where a blood test showed an alcohol level of .128, which is above the 0.1 legal limit at the time.
Alpha News discovered China developed its own howitzer, called the PLZ-05.
The American and Chinese versions “share striking similarities, including a longer barrel with a wider firing range and digital fire control.”
In 1996, Walz joined the artillery firing battery in St. James when he relocated to Mankato, MN.
Walz’s new “unit took over the upgraded howitzer, following a transition from Walz’s former unit in Nebraska, according to a 1996 field artillery annual report (page 40).”
In August, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer launched an investigation into Walz’s numerous trips to China and engagements with Chinese Communist Party officials:
Reporting indicates Governor Walz has concerning ties to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In 1993, according to the Star-Herald, as a teacher, Mr. Walz organized a trip to the PRC with Alliance High School students, where costs were paid by the Chinese government. In 1994, Mr. Walz set up a private company named “Educational Travel Adventures, Inc.,” which coordinated annual student trips to the PRC until 2003 and was led by Mr. Walz himself. The corporation was reportedly dissolved four days after he took congressional office in 2007. Since his first trip to China, Governor Walz has visited the PRC an estimated 30 times. While serving in Congress, Mr. Walz also served as a fellow at the Macau Polytechnic University, a Chinese institution that characterizes itself as having a “long held devotion to and love for the motherland.” Governor Walz spoke alongside the President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, which, a year later, the Department of State exposed as “a Beijing-based organization tasked with co-opting subnational governments,” including efforts “to directly and malignly influence state and local leaders to promote the PRC’s global agenda.”
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