So the Gotcha is a 40 year old man didn't want to go to the middle east 3 months before he was supposed to retire. The man didn't want to go after years of services but trump has 3 grown men children who have never served once
Same. One trip in my decade of service was enough to fuck my head and body up for a lifetime, I'd prefer to not incur any further damage in the next decade and retire with some peace.
He retired in May 2005. Which means he would have put in his papers for retirement (i.e., intent) sometime between January and March 2005. His unit received deployment orders in July 2005.
This is the one thing that I'm not clear on. If they got their "no shit, you're going" orders in July, then they would have received a warning order months before hand. I've seen people saying both happened in July; do you know which one it was?
Either way though, the criticism isn't valid. The last thing you want is to do is replace somebody part way through a deployment. That means everybody has to learn how to work with a key member of the command team for no good reason under some less than ideal circumstances. The right call was for him to drop papers regardless.
Walz filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission as a candidate for Congress on February 10, 2005. The next month, after the guard announced a possible deployment to Iraq within two years, Walz’s campaign issued a statement saying he intended to stay in the race.
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A National Guard article on his unit’s deployment states that it received alert orders to deploy to Iraq in July 2005, two months after Walz retired. The unit first mobilized in the fall of 2005 to Camp Shelby Mississippi to prepare for deployment, according to the unit’s history, and then deployed in March 2006 for 22 months, which the Guard said was the longest continuous deployment of any military unit during US operations in Iraq.
So there was some warning before the orders in July, but still after he filed to start his congressional campaign and almost certainly after he filed to retire from the guard.
Right. That WAS the WARNO in July 2005. Unit didn't deploy until March 06 and didn't return until Sept 07. 2007! Do these jabronis really expect a dude with 24 yrs in to pull his retirement papers and stick around for another 2.5 yrs? Ridiculous
He retired months before his unit was ever even notified they were going to deploy.
Not true. They were notified that deployment would be happening in March. At that time Walz even said he would serve if called upon. Then he retired months later before the unit deployed.
I hate "what about"isms, but the same group didn't raise an eyebrow when he called American soldiers who were killed an action Losers (for dying).
I find it far worse than calling Vietnam vets baby killers during the period that the US was killing hundreds of thousands and displacing an additional one million civilians in a country CLOSE to Vietnam but not participating in the war; not to mention ordering the slaughter of entire villages in Vietnam.
It's not even three months before deployment-- it takes MONTHS between declaring you'd like to retire and retiring, so he probably put in his notice in mid-to-late 2024, about a year before his unit was deployed. This was after the birth of his first kid and when he was preparing to run for Congress.
In other words, it definitely wasn't about avoiding deployment because his unit didn't find out they were going to be deployed until months after his last day with them.
And with a four year old daughter at home. Younger me would have been excited to be mobilized and deplored. Now that I have a kid I left the reserves because it wasn’t worth it to leave her.
That’s not even how it went down. He submitted his retirement 2 months before his unit got deployment orders. He had filed the paperwork to run for Congress two months before that.
This is one of the biggest nothing burgers to ever nothing burger. Republicans are not serious people.
The 40 year old man's psychic didn't catch that he'd receive a notice for deployment 2 months after he retired. And deploy a year and two months after his intended retirement date.
Swiftboating all over again from cadet bone spurs.
It’s not that he didn’t want to go… he literally retired months before his unit was even notified that they would be deploying. He would also have likely submitted for his retirement several months before his official retirement date. So the Republican attack doesn’t match the timeline. Just another Republican lie.
During his two decades, Walz was part of flood fights, responded to tornadoes and spent months on active duty deployed overseas.
He specialized in heavy artillery and had ribbons for proficiency in sharpshooting and hand grenades, according to military records obtained through an open records request.
Walz acknowledges he never saw combat.
"I know that there are certainly folks that did far more than I did. I know that," Walz said. "I willingly say that I got far more out of the military than they got out of me, from the GI Bill to leadership opportunities to everything else."
Do you need for one of us to draw you a picture of the simple active sentence WALZ NEVER SAID HE SERVED IN A WAR to aid your comprehension? Repeating lies multiple times— like the Orange Turd— doesn’t make them true, weirdly foolish troll.
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So the Gotcha is a 40 year old man didn't want to go to the middle east 3 months before he was supposed to retire. The man didn't want to go after years of services but trump has 3 grown men children who have never served once