Writing on the Walz: Kamala Campaign Stealth Edits Walz Bio, Removes 'Retired Command Sergeant Major' Mention: Politico

Walz has a stolen valor problem…

According to a report from Politico, the Kamala Harris campaign has stealth-edited vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s bio on the official campaign website; references to “retired command sergeant major” have been removed.

From Politico:

On its website, the Harris campaign axed a reference to Walz as a “retired command sergeant major” and now says that he once served at the command sergeant major rank — a small change that nonetheless reflects his true rank at retirement from the Army National Guard. Walz, the governor of Minnesota, served for 24 years in the National Guard before retiring in 2005 from the military to run for the U.S. House, where he became the most senior enlisted soldier to serve in Congress.

Led by GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance, a Marine Corps veteran who deployed to Iraq, Republicans have suggested that Walz inflated his credentials by calling himself a “retired command sergeant major.” The Minnesota governor did serve as a command sergeant major but was reverted back to the rank of master sergeant when he left the military because he had not completed required coursework for the higher rank with the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy.

“The son of an Army veteran who served as a command sergeant major, Walz was the ranking member on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, where he passed legislation to help stem veterans’ suicides,” the Harris campaign’s biography of Walz now reads.

In the original, the same sentence called Walz “the son of an Army veteran and a retired Command Sergeant Major in the Army National Guard himself,” website archives show.

More over at Politico:

Harris campaign tweaks Walz biography amid scrutiny of military credentials https://t.co/z6EWeObM5G

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