Retired Master Sergeant Major Tom Behrends called out Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) for claiming he was also a retired Master Sergeant Major when he wasn't, in an exclusive interview with Sirius XM . Breitbart News Daily on Monday
“It's not one,” Behrends told host Mike Slater. “He didn't finish school like that [when] you are selected to be in an E-9 position, sign a memorandum of understanding that you will complete the academy, [the] United States Army Sergeant Major Academy.”
“You're going to stay [the Army] Two years later because the military has invested a lot of money in you, which is taxpayers' money. And then if you don't, if you don't, you're basically reduced to sergeant major and you're, that's where you are. You never, ever get that chance again that I know of,” Behrends added.
Behrends had to fill in for Walz on a deployment he bailed out of in 2005. The governor knew in March 2005 that he would be deployed, but then decided to retire from the Army, leaving his unit without its largest enlisted leader. While Walz was temporarily serving as the unit's command sergeant major, he lost that rank when he retired without completing the requirements to retain that rank.
Behrends said that while Walz was not a retired command sergeant major, “he was mercilessly campaigning to mislead the public into thinking he had a higher rank than he did.”
Behrends first alerted the public to Walz's deception in 2018 when he was running for governor of Minnesota. However, it did not reach a national audience until the recent selection of Tim Walz by Vice President Kamala Harris as her running mate.
He said a guy tried to alert the public earlier, and Walz tried to argue that he was disrespecting a “fellow veteran.”
“He's a military impostor, that's what he is,” he said, explaining the different categories of imposters.
“There's a civilian version that buys a uniform at Goodwill and puts it on and walks around and acts like it's something it's not,” Behrends said.
“And then you have the military who are higher in rank than they are, or they may have more medals or ribbons than they actually earned, or they may have service stripes that show they've done more years or whatever. But, yeah you know, he's in that same category, and he's literally done it for political gain,” he added.
“He had the media in Minnesota under his thumb and kept the narrative going,” he added.
“We finally drug it, drug it out there in the light, and everybody can see it now,” he said.
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