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I served with the BN that Gov Walz was slotted in as it’s CSM.
I was attached to the MN NG 1-125 FA BN as part of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division during our 16 month deployment to Babel Province, Iraq.
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I was attached to the BN that Walz chose not to go on deployment to Iraq with.
Here are the thoughts of our BN Commander, Col. (retired) John Kolb.
“Feeling a need to say this:
I do not regret that Tim Walz retired early from the Minnesota Army National Guard….”
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My purpose in writing this is to tell you what I know of CSM Thomas Behrends, who took the intended place of of MSG Walz as the BN CSM.
CSM Behrends is one authors of the letter outlining his understanding of the events surrounding MSG Walz, pre-deployment.
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Take this into account as you read his statement about politician Tim Walz.
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“…did not complete the Sergeants Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract or did not successfully complete any assignment as a Sergeant Major. Unwittingly, he got out of the way for better leadership. “
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This is the kind of man CSM Behrends is.
I was intimidated by CSM Behrends when I first arrived at the BN Fob. I grew to highly respect him. He was a man of few words, but when he spoke, people listened.
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Here is CSM Behrends on honor detail loading an American KIA on a chopper. He is the rear, right stretcher bearer.
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CSM Behrends did not have to be on this mission. It was irregular for such a senior enlisted soldier to go on missions like this.
But CSM Behrends was not going to have his soldiers go on such a mission without him being right there with us.
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I am not speaking for anyone else in the BN, or on behalf of any of the families of our KIA and WIA.
Here is a list of deployment casualties from just one of our companies, an outstanding group of heroes from the Kansas NG who augmented the BN.
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Here is a picture of then LTC John Kolb walking on honor detail (sunglasses behind rear two stretcher bearers), and CSM Thomas Behrends (right, rear stretcher bearer) escorting an American KIA to the evac chopper.
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The BN was a battle-space owner on one of the main pilgrimage routes from Iran to the Shia holy cities of Karbala and Najaf.
Our fight was with Iranian sponsored Jaysh al Mahdi special groups.
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Thomas Behrends was the right leader at the right time. He sacrificed to answer the call, leaving his family, business and farming-partner brother to train, lead and care for soldiers.
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“He earned the privilege of being called Command Sergeant Major. Like a great leader he ran toward and not away from the guns. Like a great leader he ran toward and not away from the guns.”
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“It is an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps that he continues to glom onto the title. I can sit in the cockpit of an airplane, it does not make me a pilot. Similarly, when the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real, he chose another path.”
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Because of this, our brigade sent my Tactical Human Intelligence Team to embed with this BN for the purpose of conducting Counterintelligence and Force Protection Source Operations.
The unit took both KIA and WIA.
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Let me tell you about the man, CSM Behrends.
I was going on an intelligence reconnaissance mission in an area from which the terrorist group had attacked our small base several times, via indirect fire (mortars and katusha rockets), based on intel from HUMINT sources.
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Col. (Ret.) John Kolb, the commander of Walz’ battalion, to which I was attached as part of a Tactical HUMINT Team, ended his post thusly:
“
#notmyCSM
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Walz bailed on a deployment before his contracted time of service was over with 1-125 FA BN.
As I’ve posted before, I was attached to 1-125 FA during the 16 month deployment while I was on a Tactical HUMINT Team.
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“By all accounts and on the record, he was a competent Chief of Firing Battery/Gunnery Sergeant and First Sergeant. I cannot say the same of his service sitting, frocked, in the CSM chair. He did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignment as an E9.”
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I tell this story because it was a risky mission. If the terrorist group had known just the four of us were out there, we very easily could have been overwhelmed and killed. Or worse, captured.
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The mission entailed dropping a small team off in this area. There were only four people on this mission, by design. CSM Behrends, our armed American Citizen Iraqi translator, a squad designated marksman, and me.
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This allowed the unit’s surveillance assets to zero in on this grid coordinate and direct our fires to this location, killing one of the insurgents, and blowing the arm off another. Additional actionable intelligence was gained because of this mission.
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My purpose in writing this isn’t so much to speak to MSG Walz’ details pre-deployment. I was not part of the initial during the work up. I have no direct knowledge of the events surrounding MSG Walz during this time period.
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After many hours we finally found the impression in the ground made from the baseplate of the terrorists mortar system. Close by was a berm with burn marks from katusha rocket launches.
We recorded the 10 digit grid, and were extracted out of the area.
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A large cordon and search mission was conducted in another area to draw the attention of the terrorists away from where our mission was taking place.
Our four man team had no vehicles, no security element-just our weapons and the water we could carry, in enemy territory.
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We had to keep a very small footprint, as we didn’t want the terrorists to know we were in the area.
We spent the whole day in 120 degree heat searching for the exact point from which the terrorists had been attacking our base with indirect fire.
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“I have no opinion of Mr. Walz’s decision to leave service at the time he did. It was his right to retire early. I also have no criticism of his service as an E7 and E8 in the MNARNG.”
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At this time, a large part of the MN National Guard consisted of combat veterans, including several seasoned combat arms battalions.
I know. I served a 16 month deployment to Iraq with the MN National Guard during the period of heaviest fighting. 06/07
This is a sickness.
Mayor Jacob Frey wanted the Governor to send in the National Guard to restore the peace in Minneapolis.
Tim Walz mocked his fellow Guardsmen as “19 year-old cooks.” Which is ridiculous.
My cousin deployed with the National Guard in Minneapolis and he was an Army Ranger.
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@manolo_realengo
How far back can we go?
I have a blood grudge against Charlamagne.
The Algerians were punished for being Barbary Slaver pirates.
Hail Saxon King Widukind !
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@GavinNewsom
@GovRonDeSantis
@GregAbbott_TX
I cannot figure out what is cruel about sending people in need of sanctuary to self-designated sanctuary cities.
Was the self-designation just virtue signaling then?
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@RashaAlAqeedi
When I spent 16 months in Babil province the provincial governor, along with one of the Sadrist MoPs, was a Badr clown who enabled JAM to assassinate the provincial police general, an Iraqi patriot who just wanted the best for his country.
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Chaplain Bjertness was my Chaplain in Iraq, the BN Chaplain for the unit Walz was supposed to deploy with.
He earned a CAB.
I have a neat story about him under tragic circumstances I’ll post soon.
He was a source of inspiration for all of us.
Chaplain of Tim Walz’s National Guard battalion calls VP pick ‘cowardly’ for abandoning unit
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@politico
Having filled out a SC Voter registration card myself, South Asian Indian wasn’t listed as an option.
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@DaleStarkA10
Here is an official statement by CSM Thomas Behrends, who stepped up into the position that Tim Walz bailed from prior to the deployment.
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@JeremyShawMD
I believe one of the reasons Europe is ahead of the US in putting the breaks on fast tracking minors because there is more of a profit motive in the US than in countries with nationalized or semi-nationalized healthcare.
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@AyannaPressley
This is what’s called an extremely low resolution, bad faith take on the facts at issue in this trial.
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When a soldier does 20+ yrs of service and then choses to resign at the point his unit is on the verge of mobilizing to go into combat, it is very disappointing. Was it illegal, no; was it immoral, was it shameful, in my mind, yes.
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Here is a statement by a former member 1st SGT from 1-125 FA BN.
“Open Letter to Governor Walz
From Terry Wolf (1SG Ret)
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Absent the Governor directly addressing these issues, it continues to raise concerns about stolen valor and whether or not it is reasonable for the Governor to continue in public service.”
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This letter is being written with the intent to request that Governor Walz directly address and correct prior misrepresentations of his service, particularly of his rank, and service during combat. Details matter and words matter.
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I respectfully request that the Governor no longer suggest or allude to holding the position of CSM or participating in wartime action, and address these issues directly, and not via written statements.
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He committed to complete the steps needed to be a CSM, he committed to being there to support his soldiers and their families, and then decided to resign right when his soldiers needed the support the most.
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IRQ 2007. A young SGT from my unit had his head taken off by an Iranian supplied explosively formed projectile in this armored vehicle. The gunner had his leg blown off. This is why I take
#StolenValor
personally.
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I put my life and my career on hold, and my wife sacrificed tremendously during my time in Iraq, because that was my obligation, that was our commitment.
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What the stories and articles do not properly detail is the role of a CSM and his prior role as First Sergeant. These are senior leadership positions of the given unit, they are the ones that look out for the welfare of the soldiers and their families,
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and much like the Governor was expected to do in his role as Command Sergent Major (CSM) of the 125th Field Artillery. My wife and I had 3 children 5 years old and under at the time.
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I served 20 yrs and retired as a First Sergeant, E-8. I too was in the 125th Field Artillery in Minnesota but not at the same time as the Governor. I was deployed to Iraq in 2004-05 at a similar point of my career and served in a senior leadership role,
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I’ve heard many stories about Gov Walz’ military career over the years from friends, read some of the letters, and certainly followed the news of Governor Walz’ nomination for Vice President for the Democrat party. No doubt he deserves acknowledgment for his 24 years of service.
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@DaleStarkA10
I was in Iraq attached to the exact BN that Walz bailed from.
A 16 month deployment fighting Iranian sponsored Jaysh al Mahdi special groups.
I’ll be writing it up later here on X.
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Now to the end of the Governor’s military service, interestingly I too had the opportunity to be considered for sergeant major rank, the next level grade, and chose a different path because I couldn’t commit to the additional service and chose to retire.
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took on the responsibility during a stressful time in our military’s history, particularly for parttime soldiers He started in the role, he didn’t finish the work needed to fulfill the duties of the position, and didn’t ultimately retire as a CSM.
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Given the role I was in, and the role the Governor was in, at least temporarily, we regularly received information, likely informally, about the planned deployment months before the actual official order was received.
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In other words, I knew we were going months before the troops did, and he likely did too, that’s just the way it works.
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The Governor chose a different path. The Governor committed to this additional time, to do the school needed for the rank of CSM and an additional two years following completion of the school; he took the position,
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probably most importantly their families. For simplicity, these positions are akin to the parents of a family. The senior enlisted soldiers are there to ensure the soldiers and families that things will be ok, that the senior leadership, specifically the CSM,
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I could not imagine resigning at that point of my career with the position the Governor held when the soldiers, and their families needed me the most.
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@RussianLeftWing
@DeAngelisCorey
@ChristinaPushaw
You don’t know a lot about homeschool outcomes, do you?
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will do the right thing and will advocate to make sure the soldiers and families will be taken care of.
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@KyivIndependent
Russian forces are conscripts. Their generals don’t know how to conduct Combined Arms operations. The UKR forces, partisans and volunteers are motivated. Best wishes
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By this time, most of the senior leadership, including in the combat arms battalions, were combat veterans.
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Have you caught up yet?
@SRAlsultani
Walz put in for retirement months before notice that his unit would be deploying. Those are just facts. The guy who replaced him has levied all sorts of attacks and invective at Walz that are unjustified in light of this timeline. That doesn’t take a thread.
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This unit blew up no Iraqi neighborhoods. It worked hand in hand with the Iraqi police to build water treatment plants, provided medical care to hundreds, and protected the Iraqi people from psychopathic Iranian proxies.
Ask me how I know.
@SRAlsultani
@StolenValor1
Given a choice between blowing up Iraqi neighborhoods for no discernable reason and joining the US Congress.... hmmmm
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@JenniferBart
@Kittehstomp
As someone who has fought alongside government partner forces in insurgencies in IRQ and AFG, I can confidently add to the end of your ludicrous statement. “Until their families start getting waxed.”
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@Snakeeater36
Yeah what some AC forget is that RC/NG blood in the dirt is just as red. RIP SGT Koch MN Guard.
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@NoahCRothman
When the democrats had both houses, couldn’t they have released the raw, unedited J6 footage to whomever they pleased?
We could have seen it without commentary, and anyone would have had access the the full source footage.
Why didn’t they?
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@Mr_Christian
@LeeWingo
@deaflibertarian
Are you an operationally experienced student of Insurgency/Counterinsurgency?
If not, you should probably sit this debate out.
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@jshinde199
@Cernovich
Genocide was already happening. That whole Aztec / Maya thing. And Cortes had no clue about the diseases. Hundreds of years before the Germ Theory of Disease.
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@CBS_Herridge
Would be interested to know if he was in Bagram detention facility until recently.
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One of the best series I have ever watched. I may be biased, as a Tactical HUMINT guy, but the authenticity and nuance in the characters, culture and operations is mind blowing. All the little details are spot on. The main character served IRL in the elite unit depicted. 👊🏼🇺🇸🇮🇱
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