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House Republican Veterans Slam ‘Coward’ Walz Amid Stolen Valor Accusations

A number of Republican veterans who are members of Congress or running for the House of Representatives have slammed Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz for alleged defamation.

Waltz served 24 years in the Minnesota National Guard, including with the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery, and retired shortly before his unit was deployed to Iraq. Though he never saw combat, he said in a video shared by the Harris-Waltz campaign that he carried a weapon “during a war.”

He has also come under sharp criticism from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance for not leading his own troops into Iraq. Cotton, a two-combat Army veteran, said Walz “sent his troops to Iraq without me.”

That sentiment echoes that of two Army command sergeants who wrote in a 2018 letter published in the West Central Tribune that when Waltz retired on May 16, 2005, “the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers were left in limbo without a senior NCO as the battalion prepared for war.”

Waltz especially Submitted In February 2005, he ran for Congress and the unit Notified He hinted at a possible deployment in March 2005. But the warning came two months before he was due to retire.

Finally, Waltz’s biography suggests he retired at the rank of E-9, when in fact he retired at E-8, but he served as an E-9 for some time before retiring as a Staff Sergeant E-8.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), an Afghanistan veteran, on Wednesday denounced Walz as a “con man” and said it was “insane that Kamala would choose her running mate.” Someone who lied about their military service.”

“Either the vetting process run by Eric Holder was extremely weak or she just doesn’t care, or both!” said Banks, a Republican candidate for the Indiana Senate.

Banks also posted a photo of himself from his time in the Army as part of a larger X trend.

Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) is a U.S. Army bomb disposal expert. Lost Both of his legs were blown up with an improvised explosive device, Waltz said.

“Tim Waltz lied about his rank. He lied about serving in Afghanistan,” he wrote in X’s post. “And now, according to CNN, Waltz has also lied about carrying weapons of war in a battlefield.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), a U.S. Air Force veteran, is also married to a military veteran. shot He blasted Waltz, a Bronze Star recipient who fought against al-Qaida in Afghanistan, for “claiming to have combat experience.”

“Today is Purple Heart Day and Harris’ running mate is a man who claims to be a combat veteran. That’s horrible,” she said on X.

Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) Received a combat medal In a 1 minute, 35 second video posted to X, Waltz, a former Green Beret, analyzed the issues facing the Democratic vice presidential nominee, focusing on both Waltz’s rank and his “abandonment of the soldiers ordered to Iraq.”

“I commanded Green Berets,” the Florida congressman emphasized, “and everything I did was to prepare my guys for the moment when I had to put them in danger. It’s like the quarterback of a big team leaving right before they’re going to the Super Bowl.”

Rep. Corey Mills (R-Fla.), another combat veteran, said: Blown up Walz was speaking with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on his show of the same name. Ingram Angle.

“I think it’s very clear that as a leader your job is to continue to fight and deploy with your troops and the idea of ​​running for political office should not be in the back of your mind,” said Mills, an Army veteran who served in Iraq and was awarded the Bronze Star.

Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Montana), a former Navy SEAL commander who served in Iraq and led special operations, also criticized Walz and Harris.

“Waltz abandoned our troops in 2005, just as Kamala abandoned Americans in Afghanistan and Israel’s closest ally,” he wrote.

“Tim Walz didn’t fight for us then, he didn’t fight for Minnesota when it burned in 2020, and he won’t fight for you now,” Zinke said.

Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), a Navy veteran and former physician to several U.S. presidents, slammed Walz as a “lying coward.”

“Your ‘war stories’ disgust me and most other veterans who actually deployed to defend this country,” he wrote to Waltz. “Simply put, you are a pathetic and a national disgrace!!!”

Rep. Derrick Van Alden (R-Wis.), a veteran who served five combat tours and retired as a senior Navy SEAL commander, also called Walz a “coward.”

“As virtually the longest serving Congressman in the history of our country, I find this disgusting and would like to remove him from any military activity,” he wrote.

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) Provided “Georgia’s military community will be extremely upset that Walz chose to resign from the National Guard so soon after learning his troops were going to Iraq,” said Georgia Military Representative David L. Schneider, a former Marine and Navy veteran who served in a combat zone.

Candidate for North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District Decorated A former Army colonel and combat veteran also slammed Waltz as a coward who “quit” his unit.

“During my 26 years in the Army, I learned the full extent of my responsibility to this country,” Buckhout wrote in X’s post.but, Tim Waltz “When he heard his unit was being deployed to Iraq … he quit.”

“Waltz abandoned his troops, his soldiers and his country. We can expect the same from him as Vice President. A coward,” she wrote.

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