The attacks on Democratic VP hopeful Tim Walz's military service by his Republican VP counterpart J.D. Vance and other Republicans is a bunch of steaming garbage.
Republicans led by Vance are claiming Walz engaged in "stolen valor" because he retired from the military before his unit was to deploy in Iraq and misleading people about his rank. Former GOP Congressman and Lt. Colonel in the Air National Guard Adam Kinzinger rebukes their claims on both counts.
Walz did not abandon his unit by retiring and the military could have denied his retirement via a stop loss order. Additionally, Walz was indeed a Command Sergeant Major. But because he held the rank for less than three years, he reverted back to Master Sergeant upon his retirement.
Not that Republicans care about the facts, mind you.
Which is fine because so long as Vance and other Republicans pay fealty to a man who denigrated John McCain's war service and called soldiers killed in the line duty "loser and suckers" are no position to criticize Governor Walz for his military service.
I can only hope that most Americans will see this attack on Walz's military record exactly for what it is.
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