A military veteran who served in the same battalion as radical Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has accused the Democrat vice presidential nominee of having “ditched” his fellow troops to escape deployment to Iraq.
Tom Schilling said Walz “ditched” him and other soldiers just before they were deployed to Iraq in 2005.
“We all did what we were supposed to do, we did the right thing,” Schilling said on Fox News’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” Wednesday.
“It’s dishonorable what he did.
“He left somebody else up to take over his spot.
“He just ditched us,” Schilling said of Walz.
“It would be a disaster if he ever got to be the commander-in-chief,” Schilling said of Walz.
Earlier this week, Walz was tapped as Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s 2024 running mate.
Walz is described as a retired “command sergeant major” in his governor’s website biography.
The governor has also claimed he carried a gun “in war,” despite never experiencing active combat.
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Walz suddenly retired from the Minnesota National Guard shortly before he would have been deployed to Iraq in 2005.
“He probably knew he wasn’t a good leader and he wanted to do something else, and we did get a