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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In a New York Post interview published Sunday, Behrends also suggested Walz falsely inflated his military rank by calling himself a command sergeant major throughout his political career, despite his rank being reduced to master sergeant since he retired before completing the terms of his promotion. Harris referred to Walz as “Sgt. Maj. Walz” while praising his background during their first campaign event together Tuesday, hours after she announced him as her running mate. Minnesota National Guard spokesperson Capt. Holly Rockow told Minnesota Public Radio in 2018 it’s fair to say Walz served as sergeant major since that was his rank at the time of his retirement in 2005, though it was retroactively reverted back to master sergeant because he retired before completing requirements associated with his promotion, the Harris campaign notes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/08/07/vance-accuses-tim-walz-of-national-guard-stolen-valor-the-heavily-contested-allegations-explained/

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Walz wikipedia page states he was a Command Sgt Major.

That’s not true. In order to be a CSM, you have to graduate from the SGM academy, and then be given a Battalion assignment as a CSM. You have to be part of Bn Command team, specially the highest ranking enlisted Soldier in a battalion.[/quote]

But you CAN be conditionally promoted to CSM, with the promotion becoming permanent upon completion of those requirements within 24 months.  Walz WAS conditionally promoted to CSM but ended up retiring before meeting all of the requirements - likely because he needed surgery for ear damage from all the years of working with heavy artillery.  So to say he never held the rank of CSM is actually false.[/quote]

You say he likely retired because of he needed surgery, but that’s just your guess. We know he retired before he could deploy. If he needed surgery because of his hearing, he would have been non-deployable. He was not non-deployable.

He retired as an E8 master sgt because he never fulfilled the requirements to be an E9.

E8 is a Master Sgt or 1SG. You get paid the same, but your rank as a 1SG has a little diamond in the middle because you are in command of a company as a 1SG. Same with E9; you can be a SGM or CSM, get paid the same, but the CSM is in a command position.

I want to know what BN Walz was in charge of. If he was a CSM who suddenly retired when his BN received deployment orders for Iraq, he is a gigantic pos. You can pretend he’s not but he is. -Vet who deployed [/quote]

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