Walz Blasted And Labeled Imposter

In an exclusive interview with Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily on Monday, Retired Command Sergeant Major Tom Behrends openly criticized Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) for falsely claiming to be a retired command sergeant major, a rank he did not actually hold.

“He is not one,” Behrends told host Mike Slater. “He didn’t finish the school that [when] you get selected to be in an E-9 position, you sign a memorandum of understanding that you’re going to finish the academy, [the] United States Army Sergeant Majors Academy. You’re going to stay in [the Army] two years after that because the military’s got a lot of money invested in you, which is taxpayers’ money. And then if you don’t, if you don’t do that, you basically get reduced to master sergeant and you’re, that’s where you’re at. You’re never, you are never given that opportunity ever again that I know of.”

POWERFUL: “Tim Walz is a traitor. A traitor is a person who betrays a country. And that is what he did.“

Veteran Tom Behrends, who replaced Tim Walz on his ‘05 combat deployment to Iraqpic.twitter.com/EvSivnOgAF #stolenvalor

— Matt Batzel (@MattBatzel) August 8, 2024

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In 2005, Behrends had to step in for Walz on a deployment after Walz opted out, despite knowing as early as March 2005 that he would be deployed. Instead of fulfilling his commitment, Walz chose to retire from the Army, leaving his unit without its top enlisted leader. Although Walz had been provisionally serving as a command sergeant major, he lost that rank upon retiring without meeting the necessary requirements to retain it.

HOLY SH*T!

Minnesota National Guard Leaders Expose Tim Walz for Stolen Valor, Lying About His Rank, and Quitting When His Unit Was Deployed to Iraq.

"As soon as the shots were fired in Iraq, he turned and ran the other way and hung his hat up and quit," said Tom Behrends, a… pic.twitter.com/14zvDeSPRV

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) August 6, 2024

Behrends stated that, despite not being a retired command sergeant major, Walz was “campaigning ruthlessly to trick the public into thinking he was higher ranked than he was.”

Behrends first exposed Walz’s misrepresentation in 2018 during Walz’s gubernatorial campaign in Minnesota. However, the issue gained national attention only after Vice President Kamala Harris recently selected Tim Walz as her running mate.

Ret. Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas Behrends accuses @Tim_Walz of stolen valor: "He's used the rank that he never achieved in order to, advance his political career." #2024Election https://t.co/IyB7N1lfr1 pic.twitter.com/xYHB11DOGY

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 8, 2024

“He’s a military imposter, is what he is,” he said, explaining the different categories of imposters. There’s a civilian version of it that buys a uniform at Goodwill and puts it on and walks around and acting like he’s something he’s not. And then you have the military ones that do a higher rank than they are, or they might have more medals or ribbons than they actually earned, or they might have service stripes that show they put in more years or whatever. But, you know, he’s in that same category, and he literally has done it for political gain. He had the media in Minnesota under his thumb, and he kind of kept the narrative going. We finally drug him, drug him out of there into the light, and everybody can see him now.