Command Sergeant Major (Retired) Thomas Behrends’ criticism of Democrat VP Candidate Tim Walz’s military service is likely to get him in trouble. Minnesota, much like Oregon, is owned by Democrat bullies.
In 2004 long time Clackamas County Deputy District Attorney Al French had a spotless record as an Oregon attorney and as a prosecutor. Unfortunately, he had served in the Navy alongside Democrat Presidential Candidate John Forbes Kerry and he could not tolerate the lies Kerry was telling about his Navy service. French joined together with dozens of other men who had served with Kerry and they formed the group “Swift Boat Veterans For Truth” to expose Kerry’s lies. French can be seen in this public service announcement criticizing Kerry: SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH
The Democrat powers that be turned French’s life upside down. He was immediately suspended from his job, while the Oregon State Bar* opened disbarment proceedings. Indeed, they even researched his sex life and published it in the newspapers. Behrends is owner of Behrends Farms & Gravel in Brewster, Minnesota. He may find that criticizing Tim Walz will cost him his business license, or worse.
ON EVE OF DEPLOYMENT TO IRAQ, WALZ ABANDONED HIS MEN
It was late in the spring of 2005 when Tom Behrends, a farmer then in his mid 40s with three kids, got the call from his superiors: The Minnesota National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery was being sent to Iraq. Tim Walz, the unit’s command sergeant major, had just resigned to run for Congress. Behrends was in line to take his place commanding his soldiers. Despite having a farm to run and one kid still in elementary school, Behrends accepted the assignment to command 500 men in battle. Three of his men were later killed in Iraq.
In a recent interview on Fox’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Behrends scolded Walz for misleading the American public about his military career. Walz’s service concluded when he retired from his unit in the Minnesota National Guard right before they deployed to Iraq in 2005, the New York Post reported.
When asked if Walz is guilty of “stolen valor,” the National Guard veteran told host Laura Ingraham that it’s “far darker than a lot of people think.”
“He’s used the rank that he never achieved in order to advance his political career,” he said. “I mean, he still says he’s a retired command sergeant major to this day, and he’s not. He uses the rank of others to make it look like he’s a better person than he is.”
LIKE KERRY IN 2004, WALZ IS MORE OF A COWARD THAN A HERO
While Walz was abandoning his men to begin a political career, Kerry was running for president. It is interesting to note that Kerry asked for an early discharge from the Navy to pursue his own political career. Walz had been promoted to command sergeant major in 2004, which required him to serve two additional years or the promotion would be void. His enlistment term was to end in September 2007; but, Walz took early retirement which terminated the promotion, reducing his rank to master sergeant, according to Behrends.
“What he did, basically, was he quit. He didn’t complete that condition of doing two years after graduation, so he gets reduced to a master sergeant, and that’s what he is right now, is a retired master sergeant.”
After Kamala Harris announced him as her running mate on the 2024 Democrat ticket, questions emerged about Walz’s rhetoric surrounding his time in the service. Walz is described as a retired “command sergeant major” in his governor’s website biography and has also claimed he carried a gun “in war,” despite never being in combat.
“To most people, that would mean that he was actually in combat, carrying a weapon in a combat zone and getting combat pay and in a dangerous and hostile environment where he is getting shot at,” Behrends said. “I mean, if he thinks Italy was a combat zone or a war zone, and he was carrying that in war, he’s delusional,” he added.
The Minnesota National Guard’s director of Operations, confirmed Behrends’ assessment of Walz’s rank at the time of his retirement:
“He was technically a Command Sgt Major when he deployed to Europe with his battalion but to RETIRE as a CSM you have to go through a final course which he had not completed so from a benefits perspective the Army retired him as a Master Sgt (lower enlisted rank.) But according to National Guard records he was a Command Sgt Major technically when deployed. The lower rank was as a result of benefit requirements and a technicality.”
Link here to listen to a 13-minute interview with Tom Behrends.
WALZ JUST DITCHED HIS MEN
Tom Schilling, who was also a member of Walz’s battalion, slammed his actions as “dishonorable” during an interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
“I have my stories about what he did to the military, when he left us like that, and I was kind of like, ‘Are you kidding me?’” Schilling said, recalling his reaction when he heard Harris tapped Walz as her running mate.
“We all did what we were supposed to do, we did the right thing, and it’s dishonorable what he did,” Schilling said. “He left somebody else to take over his spot. He just ditched us.”
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*In the end, Al French was reinstated to his job, and the Oregon State Bar dropped disbarment proceedings. There was no “there” there and his persecutors were aware of this fact before they went public with the notion that Mr. French was bad, bad, bad. They made an example of him to warn other attorneys: Don’t you DARE criticize a Democrat who is running for high office.
The author, Diane L. Gruber, is a First Amendment advocate who writes for Substack. She calls her Substack newsletter America First Re-Ignited.
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