Tim Walz served 24 years in the Army National Guard. He served 20 years, got his retirement, and came back after 9/11 for 4 more years. His final rank was command sergeant major, but he wasn’t in the position for long enough to retire from that position. He officially retired to go into politics. Months later his squad was told they were being deployed to Iraq.
The attacks have been:
Claiming Coast Guard isn’t “real” service.
Harris’s campaign erroneously listing his final rank as his retired rank.
Claiming he avoided deployment, despite serving for 24 years and not knowing that they were deploying at the time he filed to leave.
There are probably some other attacks. But those are the main ones I’ve seen.
I remember attacks in GWB for avoiding the Vietnam draft by taking service in the Air National Guard, which he may or may not have taken seriously. People of a certain age may still see National Guard as a form of draft dodging akin to “bone spurs,” but it’s hard to argue that for a man who spent 20 years there.
When I hear the dude was a teacher and National Guardsman for 20 years, I’m pretty sure that’s just a guy who took a second job because teaching doesn’t pay shit.
Walz was born in 1964, so him being in the National Guard has nothing to do with dodging the draft anyways, as there was no draft in the US after 1973. The entire conversation is silly. Vance and his puppet masters are just trying to score cheap points on Walz because they are desperate.
Tim Walz served 24 years in the Army National Guard. He served 20 years, got his retirement, and came back after 9/11 for 4 more years. His final rank was command sergeant major, but he wasn’t in the position for long enough to retire from that position. He officially retired to go into politics. Months later his squad was told they were being deployed to Iraq.
The attacks have been:
Claiming Coast Guard isn’t “real” service.
Harris’s campaign erroneously listing his final rank as his retired rank.
Claiming he avoided deployment, despite serving for 24 years and not knowing that they were deploying at the time he filed to leave.
There are probably some other attacks. But those are the main ones I’ve seen.
I remember attacks in GWB for avoiding the Vietnam draft by taking service in the Air National Guard, which he may or may not have taken seriously. People of a certain age may still see National Guard as a form of draft dodging akin to “bone spurs,” but it’s hard to argue that for a man who spent 20 years there.
When I hear the dude was a teacher and National Guardsman for 20 years, I’m pretty sure that’s just a guy who took a second job because teaching doesn’t pay shit.
No, he joined the national guard first.
They paid for his college education to become a teacher.
Walz was born in 1964, so him being in the National Guard has nothing to do with dodging the draft anyways, as there was no draft in the US after 1973. The entire conversation is silly. Vance and his puppet masters are just trying to score cheap points on Walz because they are desperate.