Forget his exact words, but he used, but he said he would never say something bad about…. He already did when he lied about his service.

When I went into the Marines, thousands were going to Canada to avoid service. When he refused to go to war, he put himself right in that group.

I was in the Marines 9 years. One of those years was in Vietnam. Admittedly, I was not in the jungle or rice patties. But I was, by definition in a war zone and I wore two ribbons because of it. I spent the time in the heat and I carried a rifle and live ammunition locked and loaded. I worked and lived in areas that had real bunkers and I spent a lot of time in them. I was on a guard post with rifle and grenades and I got wet in the rain and I walked in mud up past my ankles. I got eaten by mosquitoes and this man refused combat duty after spending 24 years supposedly at the ready to fight. Others went. He didn’t, even though, as a sergeant major, he would not have likely had much of a threat. With his rank, he would not have suffered the discomfort of his troops. Being in artillery, he would have been far removed from direct danger.

Walz has made all the military look bad. He let down the national guard. …and he disgraced his unit, especially considering his rank. If he were a private or even a corporal, that would be bad enough. However, he was holding the highest enlisted rank in the national guard.

More than that, he disgraced himself, which I hope will follow him for the rest of his life. Indeed, it should have disqualified him for any job in the military, let alone, to be in a position where he might command the military.