I'm not going to weigh in on the circumstances surrounding his retirement. I'll leave that to his former comrades.
But he gets absolutely no slack from me for pretending to be a combat veteran, and for permitting others to claim that he was. I will also ask when did the National Guard become honorable service? I mean, Dan Quayle and George Bush were called shirkers, cowards and draft dodgers for serving in the Guard. Donna Brazile even said Dubya betrayed his country. So I suppose it matters who is serving, right? Remember John Kerry played "Fortunate Son" at his rallies to mock Dubya?
Incidentally, I always found it amusing that the song had been written by a man who did not deploy to Viet Nam because he was in the Army Reserve. Again, it all matters who performed the service.
I don't think Governor Walz would have gotten any grief over his retirement had be been honest with his reserve peers, at the time and later. Bowing out of a deployment after twenty-four years of service, handing over duties to the next fellow, wishing them the best and promising to support them from the civilian side - that would have been graceful, and somewhat understandable. But bailing out of a deployment to an active theater at the last moment, and then appearing to claim moral authority for having served in one ... it's a bad, graceless look.
I'm more concerned about Walz than Harris. Given his BLM riot track record in MN, he seems like the kind of guy that could rationalize some genuine atrocities.
Thanks for writing about this. I could not agree more with Lt Col Kolb. As an aside it's funny how typing in "Lt Col John Kolb in Google did not bring up any relevant search results for the four pages I looked through but came up on the very first page of Duck Duck Go. Must be merely a coincidence I'm sure. I am a retired AF CMSgt and busted my ass to earn that rank. Also had the help of some great supervisors so I take Gov Walz misappropriating a rank he did not earn or deserve a bit personally. More importantly what does that say about the character of this individual? Nothing good.
I'm not going to weigh in on the circumstances surrounding his retirement. I'll leave that to his former comrades.
But he gets absolutely no slack from me for pretending to be a combat veteran, and for permitting others to claim that he was. I will also ask when did the National Guard become honorable service? I mean, Dan Quayle and George Bush were called shirkers, cowards and draft dodgers for serving in the Guard. Donna Brazile even said Dubya betrayed his country. So I suppose it matters who is serving, right? Remember John Kerry played "Fortunate Son" at his rallies to mock Dubya?
Incidentally, I always found it amusing that the song had been written by a man who did not deploy to Viet Nam because he was in the Army Reserve. Again, it all matters who performed the service.
I don't think Governor Walz would have gotten any grief over his retirement had be been honest with his reserve peers, at the time and later. Bowing out of a deployment after twenty-four years of service, handing over duties to the next fellow, wishing them the best and promising to support them from the civilian side - that would have been graceful, and somewhat understandable. But bailing out of a deployment to an active theater at the last moment, and then appearing to claim moral authority for having served in one ... it's a bad, graceless look.
I'm more concerned about Walz than Harris. Given his BLM riot track record in MN, he seems like the kind of guy that could rationalize some genuine atrocities.
Thanks for writing about this. I could not agree more with Lt Col Kolb. As an aside it's funny how typing in "Lt Col John Kolb in Google did not bring up any relevant search results for the four pages I looked through but came up on the very first page of Duck Duck Go. Must be merely a coincidence I'm sure. I am a retired AF CMSgt and busted my ass to earn that rank. Also had the help of some great supervisors so I take Gov Walz misappropriating a rank he did not earn or deserve a bit personally. More importantly what does that say about the character of this individual? Nothing good.
I am blessed to know some awesome CMSgts!
good write up - thanks