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“The public needs to know how pathetic his leadership was as a National Guardsman,” Behrends said about Gov. Tim Walz.
He’s back again to wage a public war of words against Walz. This is what his grain bin looked like in the 2018 election:
“He abandoned us. What the hell kind of leader does that? As soon as
the shots were fired in Iraq, he turned and ran the other way and hung
his hat up and quit,” Behrends said.
This all starts years ago, when Behrends says Walz’s misleading statements about his military service first led him to come forward
in the fall of 2018. The story was largely ignored and Minnesota’s
largest newspaper, the Star Tribune, checked it out but decided not to
publish, according to Behrends.
“When the reporter called, I thought, ‘What the hell, is this North
Korea?'” Behrends recalled. Alpha News reached out to the Star Tribune
but didn’t receive a response.
The backstory
Back in early 2005, a warning order went out to southern Minnesota’s
First Battalion-125th Field Artillery to mobilize for a mission to Iraq,
Behrends said. Walz served as the unit’s highest non-commissioned
officer after he was conditionally promoted to command sergeant major on
April 1, 2005, records show. On May 16, Walz retired from the guard,
avoided the deployment, and ran for Congress.
Walz has implied in previous statements that he didn’t retire because of the deployment, but National Guard records show his service obligation wasn’t complete until September 2007.
Behrends was next in line for the position and was asked to take his place.
Command Sergeant Major Tom Behrends (photo provided to Alpha News)
“I was like well, for Pete’s sake, if this guy quits, if I say I’m
not going to do it, I mean, what the hell kind of leadership is that?”
Behrends recalled. “If a company would say we’re going to deploy to Iraq
and the foreman says, ‘I’m not going,’ what does that say to the 500
that work in that factory?”
Command Sergeant Major Behrends went on to serve in Iraq on a nearly
two-year deployment, all while Walz began using that very title as a
congressman.
Behrends said he contacted Walz with his concerns before raising the issue publicly, sending letters to Washington in 2016. The letters all went unanswered, Behrends said.
Mainstream media ignores story
Behrends again tried to draw attention to the story in 2018 when Congressman Walz announced his run for governor.
“It kind of just sat there, you know, when he was a congressman. He
bragged that he was a retired command sergeant major and the
highest-ranking person ever in the House,” Behrends recalled.
“Then, the state of Minnesota came out after 2018 after this was
exposed and they said, ‘Well, he can say that he served as a command
sergeant major, but he can’t say he’s a retired one because he’s not,'”
he added.
“He was saying that and there were campaign letters coming in the
mail saying that. They said, right on there, he’s a retired command
sergeant major. Just tooting his own horn, hanging on the coattails of
people that actually are command sergeant majors that went through all
the process and put all the time in,” Behrends said.
A spokesperson for the Minnesota National Guard previously said Walz
wasn’t able to retire as a command sergeant major since he failed to
complete coursework and other requirements related to the rank.
Documents show the Army corrected Walz’s service record. He was reduced in rank to an E-8 master sergeant after retirement.
“It’s stolen valor is really what it is. I don’t know of anybody else that’s done what he’s done,” Behrends said.
In 2018, Behrends gave the story the full-court press. He sent a
letter with the entire story to radio and TV stations across the state. A
few outlets picked up on the story, including Alpha News.
But Twin Cities TV stations and the Star Tribune were silent, even after Behrends says the newspaper checked it all out.
The Star Tribune editorial board endorsed Walz in 2018 for governor.
New message
Between lockdowns, riots, unchecked crime, and a charred police
precinct, Behrends felt he had no choice but to again come forward ahead
of November.
“Allowing that to be burned down was just like having the Alamo be
burned down. It was like, you defend that to the last man,” Behrends
said of the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct.
“If he would have went to Iraq, he’d still be hiding under his desk
over there because that’s just, you know, just the cowardice that I see
portrayed with him,” Behrends added.
Walz’s August 2020 description of National Guard members as “19-year-old cooks” added to Behrends’ anger.
“I would take any 19-year-old cook before I’d go to war with him,” he quickly replied.
“I don’t know how he could even utter such a statement. I mean, it’s just absolutely sad,” he added.
So, this election year, it’s all built up again to Behrends’ new grain bin message.
“He called Jacob Frey an abject failure, so I was like, ‘That’s what he is,'” Behrends said of his first sign.
“Walz is a traitor” also made a return.
“The last one I put together and he said it himself too, ‘If you
don’t like how I do my job, they can vote me out,’ so we got ‘vote him
out’ at the bottom of it. That’s what we need to do, vote him out,”
Behrends said of the last banner on his bin.
Alpha News again asked Gov. Walz if he’s using the “command sergeant
major” rank on his campaign website for political gain this year.
A section on Gov. Walz’s campaign website where he discusses his military record.
A spokesperson said this has been in the news before and pointed Alpha News to a past story where Walz said “normally this type of partisan political attack only comes from one who’s never worn a uniform.” [SOURCE]
Paul Herr served in the military for 34 years in a variety of
positions — as an engineer on active duty, to a tanker and first
sergeant, and eventually as a command sergeant major who was deployed to
Iraq in 2011 and retired in 2015. He joined Liz Collin on her podcast
this week for an extensive interview.
Herr is the second whistleblower to come forward to shed light on Walz’s military record, joining Tom Behrends, who shared his story
last week. According to Behrends, a warning order went out to Walz’s
First Battalion-125th Field Artillery to mobilize for a mission to Iraq
back in early 2005.
At the time, Herr said he participated in several meetings with Walz,
who initially indicated he would be going on the deployment. However,
Walz retired before the time came to deploy, and Behrends took Walz’s
place.
According to Herr, Walz had been conditionally promoted to the rank
of command sergeant major (CSM) before the deployment but never actually
finished the requirements to call himself a CSM.
Herr predicts Walz fulfilled, “literally boots-on-the-ground time
spent as a CSM,” about 14 days total in meetings and other service
duties.
Before the deployment, Herr was privy to conversations that made sense only later.
“[Walz is] talking, he’s making comments to other CSMs in the room
that, ‘Yeah, I really appreciate this … I have a really good chance of
winning this seat,’” Herr said, referring to Walz’s successful 2006 run
for Congress.
“And I didn’t put any of that together until we showed up for a
meeting one time later down the road, and Tom Behrends was sitting in
the room as CSM,” he said.
Retired Command Sergeant Major Paul Herr shared his story with Liz
Collin on her podcast this week. (Photo provided to Alpha News)
Other battalion sergeant majors were also unaware of the switch until that day.
“We found out then that Gov. Walz had disappeared, retired out, and
basically left his troops high and dry … leaderless,” Herr said.
‘Habitual liar’
Herr called Walz a “habitual liar,” someone who will “say anything to
anybody to make it sound like he’s going to do the best thing for you.”
On his campaign website,
Walz uses the title of command sergeant major. While this is
“technically” true, according to Herr, he thinks it’s meant to mislead
people. Walz did serve as a CSM, but he was demoted to an E-8 master sergeant after retirement because he didn’t complete all the requirements of the CSM rank.
Walz sees the military as a “voting bloc” today, Herr thinks, and he does and says things “basically to garner votes.”
He recently promoted
bonuses for veterans who served in post-9/11 combat, for instance. Herr
commented that the timing of this is “suspect,” considering Walz has
been in office for “a long while” and the election is now just under two
months away.
It’s frustrating for Herr, who was a command sergeant major for 11
years, to hear Walz use the CSM title to “get credibility with the
military and with the public.”
“He uses a mythical rank that he wasn’t allowed to retire with, that he never enrolled into the academy [for],” Herr said.
“It speaks to integrity and honor. You have a man sitting in the
office, sitting in that seat as governor of the state of Minnesota. He’s
lied to the public, he continues to lie to feather his own bed,” Herr
continued.
Herr also discussed Walz’s response to the George Floyd riots in 2020 and his COVID-19 policies.
Walz cited his National Guard experience to justify his decisions
during the riots but made statements that were nowhere “near to being
true,” Herr said.
“He’ll say, ‘I was in the guard, you can’t just call up the guard,’
or he’ll say, ‘Well, I’ll call the guard, but you’re just gonna get a
bunch of 19-year-old cooks.’ Neither one of those statements is anywhere
near to being true,” Herr said.
Herr said, for the most part, people are thanking Behrends for coming forward.
“I would like to see [Walz] just take credit for the service that he
did, quit trying to ride the shirttails and coattails of the sergeant
majors that actually did the work,” he said.
A spokesperson for Walz previously said this topic has been covered before and referred Alpha News to a past story where Walz said “normally this type of partisan political attack only comes from one who’s never worn a uniform.” [SOURCE]
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