The battalion commander who took over after Tim Walz quit the Minnesota National Guard in 2004 blasted him on Facebook for claiming he’s a Command Sergeant Major when he “did not earn the rank.”
Lieutenant Colonel John Kolb called Walz “an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps” for continuing to use the title.
Here’s more from Daily Mail:
The battalion commander who ran Tim Walz’s former unit has slammed the vice presidential nominee over claims of ‘stolen valor’.
Kamala Harris’ running mate has already been forced to backtrack on claims of having ‘carried’ weapons of war in combat during his 24 years in the Army National Guard and faced claims of being a ‘coward’ from family members of soldiers.
Harris has also been put in the unenviable position of confronting claims that Walz misrepresented his rank when he retired from the National Guard.
Now Lieutenant Colonel John Kolb, the man who would take over Walz’s unit after the governor quit in 2005, has obliterated the Democrat for claiming the rank of Command Sergeant Major and for retiring before deployment to Iraq.
Kolb wrote in a Facebook post that Walz ‘did not earn the rank’ and added that ‘it is an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps that he continues to glom onto the title.’
They posted the full Facebook entry from Kolb:
Speaks for itself.