Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Still Claiming He Retired as a Command Sergeant Major
“After 24 years in the Army National Guard, Command Sergeant Major Walz retired from the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion in 2005.”
Walz is set to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota Law School. His bio is a bit misleading.
🚨 BREAKING: Tim Walz is still claiming he retired as a Command Sergeant Major.
He just won’t stop with the stolen valor. pic.twitter.com/oWnmhmE2xA
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) April 17, 2025
It’s still on the website:
Governor Tim Walz To Deliver the Keynote Address for the Class of 2025 Commencement
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will deliver the keynote address at Minnesota Law’s 137th commencement exercises for the Class of 2025. Law School commencement is scheduled at Northrop at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 17, 2025.
Tim Walz is Minnesota’s 41st governor. He was first elected in 2018 and won re-election in 2022. In 2024, he ran for vice president on the Democratic presidential ticket alongside former Vice President Kamala Harris.
After graduating from high school, Walz enlisted in the Army National Guard. He attended Chadron State College and earned a degree in social science in 1989. Walz spent a year teaching abroad before returning home to serve full-time in the Army National Guard, eventually taking a position as a high school teacher and coach. He holds a Master of Science in educational leadership from MSU-Mankato.
After 24 years in the Army National Guard, Command Sergeant Major Walz retired from the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion in 2005. He won his first election to the United States House of Representatives in 2006 and was re-elected for another five terms, representing Minnesota’s First Congressional District in Southern Minnesota.
DONATE
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
This guy is such a putz. Call him back to active service, demote his ass, and then discharge him.
Everyone is making the assumption that he means in the US military. Given his obsession with China, perhaps he means he retired as a Command Sergeant Major from the PLA. Maybe he really was at Tiananmen Square. Just on the side of evil.
The highest chinese enlisted rank is “Master Sergeant First Class” so that is what he probably was.
Give him six months, he’ll be introducing himself as “Retired Vice President.”
The question some honest reporter might ask is “according to your DD214, at what pay grade did you retire?” He may have been in a SGM billet with a brevetted rank, in which case he retired at E-8 rather than E-9.
(laughs) “honest reporter” (laughs hysterically).
Well maybe Scott Jennings.
Walz is the political equivalent of the goofy Nigel Tufnel, of Spinal Tap, who brightly shows off his amps that “go to 11.” When told that he should just renumber the amp knobs to 10, he puzzles for a minute and then just doubles down with “These go to 11!”
He’s not making that claim, the university is. Instead of complaining on X, why doesn’t Dustin Grage bring it to the university’s attention?
It’s also not exactly false. Look at the phrasing. It doesn’t say he retired as a CSM, but that “CSM Walz retired”. That is a true statement; at the time he retired he still had that rank and was still entitled to call himself that. His reduction in rank, retroactive to the day before his retirement, hadn’t happened yet.