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originally posted by: YourFaceAgain
According to records by the National Guard, the 1st Battalion of the 125th Field Artillery received an alert order on July 14, 2005, – two months after Walz retired. The mobilization order came in August and the unit mobilized in October.
ABC
Typical Democrat media dishonesty. This paragraph is meant to mislead readers into thinking the alert order, which came after he retired, was the first indication his home tcunit had that they'd be deploying. That's absolutely false.
originally posted by: YourFaceAgain
originally posted by: Moon68
Where I work there's a guy that had a 22 year "career" as a drone tester in the Guard. He served honorably 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks a year, retiring as an E-8. He spent that entire 22 years in S. Dakota in his hometown. This guy also has an impressive list of commendations and medals, some for combat service that he never participated in. Oh, and did I mention, he retired with a 100% disability rating for PTSD? Yeah, there's monumental pieces of sh*t in all walks of life, including the military. The company I work for pays a lot of lip service to veteran hiring but there's a multitude of flappy sack soy bois here that get to claim veteran status that are just plain scum. As a vet myself, I reserve the right to call out that BS when I see it.
Ribbons can be very misleading because they have specific meanings. I have two GWOT ribbons despite never having set foot in Iraq or Afghanistan. One simply means I was in the service during the GWOT. That's the only requirement to get it. The other means I deployed in support of GWOT. You don't have to have done a combat tour to get that one. I got it for deploying to Qatar, where I did fuel aircraft that went into combat. Those ones are easy for the pieces of # to pass off to people who don't know as signifying they served in combat.
I've also got a Nuclear Deterrence medal. No idea where I earned that when it showed up I actually went to personnel to ask them about it because I thought it was a mistake and I didn't wanna wear a ribbon I hadn't earned. They got back to me a few weeks later and said it was legit and I should wear it, but didn't give me much of an explanation for it. I think I got it for some secret squirrel aircraft I refueled, but I'm still not sure.
originally posted by: Vermilion
originally posted by: YourFaceAgain
According to records by the National Guard, the 1st Battalion of the 125th Field Artillery received an alert order on July 14, 2005, – two months after Walz retired. The mobilization order came in August and the unit mobilized in October.
ABC
Typical Democrat media dishonesty. This paragraph is meant to mislead readers into thinking the alert order, which came after he retired, was the first indication his unit had that they'd be deploying. That's absolutely false.
They keep moving the goalposts.
First they claimed August.
Then July.
Then politico drops an article after 10pm last night claiming he dropped his retirement papers in February “about a month before reports emerged that the Minnesota National Guard might be deployed.”
They site zero sources for this new found info. 🤡
Hogwash.
www.politico.com...
originally posted by: Vermilion
a reply to: YourFaceAgain
I highly doubt the Army would have even started him down the path to Command Sergeant Major, knowing he didn't have enough time left to fulfill the obligations.
Exactly.
They would not.
I had a “C” school and one of the requirements was that we had to have at least 2 years of service time left.
So either you have the 2 years left or you had to extend your service time to get the school.
My son was killed in Iraq after Tim Walz 'abandoned' his military unit
originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: Vermilion
wow, that kind of puts the nail in the coffin. What will the excuses be now?
originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: CarlLaFong
To add:
originally posted by: Irishhaf
Just heard an Obama flunky vetted waltz I wonder if that thumbs up was payback for Biden pushing Kamala forward.
originally posted by: CarlLaFong
originally posted by: Vermilion
Here’s a press release from March 20, 2005…
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He’s busted.
Abandon ship!!!!
Thanks for finding that.