This week, Lieutenant Colonel John Kolb, the former battalion commander for the unit that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) has been accused of abandoning before it was deployed to Iraq, reproached the 60-year-old Democrat for stolen valor.
“Feeling a need to say this: I do not regret that Tim Walz retired early from the Minnesota Army National Guard, did not complete the Sergeants Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract or did not successfully complete any assignment as a Sergeant Major. Unwittingly, he got out of the way for better leadership. Thomas Behrends was the right leader at the right time.” Kolb said.
Kolb went on to claim that Walz“did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignment as an E9” and that his claim that he did “is an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps.”
“I can sit in the cockpit of an airplane, it does not make me a pilot,” he added. “Similarly, when the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real, he chose another path.”
Colonel John Kolb — Tim Walz’s battalion commander and direct supervisor — TRASHES Walz’s stolen valor lies:
“It is an affront to the noncommissioned officer corps that he continues to glom onto the title. I can sit in the cockpit of an airplane, it does not make me a pilot.” pic.twitter.com/FZqtZjvBt5
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 11, 2024
Walz has been embroiled in controversy over the past week due to the misinterpretation of his service record and his early departure from the National Guard ahead of his unit’s deployment to a warzone.
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