Tim Walz has a Blue Falcon problem. The creepy Harris Walz campaign is already touting Tim Walz’s military service. His is better than JD Vance’s you see because he’s not one of the country club. He’s just a patriot. 

He may not have been wearing his sergeant’s chevrons or bearing a coach’s whistle over his neck, but his remarks made clear he intends to run on his biography and regular-bloke style and not his progressive legacy in St. Paul. He held up his GI Bill and public school credentials, salted his comments with a bit of “damn” and “hell” and portrayed the opposition as the country club and the sell-out.

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Few in the Democratic Party were happier to see the ticket talking about love of country, military service and veterans’ care than Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, who since his 2022 campaign has been urging his party to reclaim the flag.

“He’s a person who won’t be lectured on patriotism,” Moore told me after watching a command sergeant major, the essential cohesive force in any military unit, take the stage.

Tim Walz is, along with Kamala Harris, very anti-gun and they are making sure we know about it. 

Gov. @Tim_Walz: I spent 25 years in the Army and I hunt. I’ve been voting for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can research the impacts of gun violence. We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war,… pic.twitter.com/3IVaXi2RP2

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 6, 2024

To be clear, Walz spent 24 years in Minnesotas Army National Guard. That’s wonderful and patriotic right? Until one gets to the end of his service and realizes he has a Blue Falcon problem. 

In 2003 Walz was selected to attend the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy. This is a pretty big deal. It also involves a two+ year commitment with VERY SPECIFIC CONDITIONS to meet. And if met appropriately, the result is a promotion to Command Sergeant Major. During that time period, Walz and the 1-125 Field Army Battalion were sent to Italy for six months. 

Then, in 2004, things changed. 

On September 17th, 2004 he was conditionally promoted to Command Sergeant Major. The conditions had been outlined to him when he was counseled and he signed the Statement of Agreement and Certification. If the conditions are not met, the promotion is null and void, like it never happened.

In early 2005, a warning order was issued to the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, which included the position he was serving in, to prepare to be mobilized for active duty for a deployment to Iraq.

On May 16th, 2005 he quit, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging; without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war. 

Yes. He QUIT. In fact, he quit so hard that the paperwork for his resigning of his commission NEVER caught up to him. That’s correct. He cut and ran so fast he couldn’t be bothered to sign the retirement paperwork. Which to this day reads: SOLDIER UNAVAILABLE FOR SIGNATURE.

Folks, that’s an incredibly Blue Falcon move. What is a Blue Falcon? 

Walz is just another “Blue Falcon” who used his military service for purely political gain. What is a Blue Falcon you ask?

“A supposed comrade whose actions harm his friends, often but not always, for his own benefit.”

The troops don’t forget. @GovTimWalz https://t.co/baMKIooYJR

— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) August 6, 2024

Tim Walz quit rather than deploy to Iraq. It was a 22-month deployment during which three men in his unit were killed while Walz was gallivanting around campaigning for his first term in Congress. 

He’s spent years talking up his service and how he was Command Sergeant Major. But again, there’s a problem with that. He served as an acting CSM. But due to his failure to complete the Sergeant’s course, upon retirement, his rank was reduced to Sergeant Major. No, it’s not Stolen Valor, he’s playing semantics and hoping veterans won’t call him out on it. 

Here’s the other part of his Blue Falcon problem. The George Floyd riots. Walz, as governor, refused for DAYS to call in the National Guard. 

After allowing the largest city in his state to be overrun by violent protestors who burned entire districts to the ground, Walz scoffed at the mayor’s request for National Guard support, referring to the Minnesota National Guard as a bunch of “19 year old cooks.

Were it anyone else, they could plead ignorant. But this was an unforgiveable error for a 24-year veteran of the same State’s Guard. Having served, Walz should have known that the Minnesota National Guard boasts 180 Military Police in the 34th Military Police Company and more in the 257th Military Police Company, as well as Air National Guard Security Forces, an infantry battalion, and a cavalry regiment. The National Guard Reaction Force is on standby for rapid deployments in natural disasters and civil unrest scenarios.

And yes, as I pointed out here, he literally dissed the entire Minnesota National Guard during the George Floyd riots. Yet, last evening he’s on record talking about how Trump doesn’t know what service is. 

Walz himself has demonstrated, at the end of his National Guard career that HE doesn’t know what service is. When the going got tough, he quit. 

You know what really bothers me about Tim Walz?

When the US Marine Corps asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it.

When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, he dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him. I think that's shameful. pic.twitter.com/Dq9xjn4R51

— JD Vance (@JDVance) August 7, 2024

Yes, it’s incredibly shameful. And speaks volumes concerning Tim Walz’s character. It’s distinctly lacking. 

Leadership means accountability. Quitting is not leadership. We are supposed to believe that Tim Walz will be the co-leader when we need it the most. His Blue Falcon record tells us otherwise. 

Feature Photo Credit: Original artwork by Victory Girls Darleen Click