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Leader of Walz’s unit breaks his silence: When demands got real, ‘he chose another path’
The leader of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s unit while he was in the National Guard is speaking out to give his perspective about Walz’s decision to retire sooner than planned in order to avoid deployment to Iraq so that he could run for Congress.
The Democrats’ new vice presidential nominee’s military service and comments he has made about it have come under intense scrutiny, as he made it appear, on multiple occasions, that he served in a combat zone, when he did not, and retired as a command sergeant major, when he instead officially retired as a master sergeant.
John Kolb would have been Walz’s boss if he had not left the service before the deployment.
The issue has followed Walz since he started his political career.
In a Facebook post, Kolb said, “I do not regret Tim Walz retired early” because the man who replaced him, Thomas Behrends, turned out to be an exemplary leader and was needed during their unit’s tough mission to Iraq. He went on to criticize Walz for falsely claiming to be a retired command sergeant major for years.
