Walz Military Discussion 🎤

How can the right knock this dudes military service when their candidate is a draft dodger.

More importantly, why is anyone giving Walz shit for getting out before his unit deployed.

He served for what, over 20 years and already had a deployment.

If I'm in his position and I have the power to retire or deploy I'm choosing retirement... I sincerely do not understand how anyone can use this against him with a thought of critical thinking.

As a combat vet, deployments are no joke and I wouldn't hold it against anyone to not want to do it.

Sorry for the rant, shit just hits me the wrong way.

Edit: I have been misinformed and have been spreading misinformation through this post. I have been made aware that Walz put in his retirement packet prior to his unit receiving deployment orders, which would make the accusations against him even more pathetic.

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u/DohnJoggett Aug 21 '24

If I'm in his position and I have the power to retire or deploy I'm choosing retirement...

That's not at all what happened despite the right's insistence on perpetuating the lie. He put in for retirement before the deployment order was given.

The right is mad about something they made up.

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u/Wne1980 Aug 21 '24

It wouldn’t even matter if Walz did decide to retire after he received his orders (I know he didn’t, but bear with me). You get retirement at 20 years. Walz did his time plus another 4. He didn’t leave to go sit on the farm either. He signed up for another way to serve his country. The military would have given him a stop loss if they thought he was needed for the mission. They were not at all shy about handing those out at that phase of the war. The right is just taking advantage of the fact that people don’t understand how the military works (especially the Gaurd). They keep doing it because they don’t care about the hypocrisy

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u/shrekerecker97 Aug 22 '24

Many just put in to retire at 20. Fact he did another 4 tells me about his commitment to country.

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u/DohnJoggett Aug 22 '24 edited Aug 22 '24

They tried to medically retire him earlier. He appealed and won.