Mother of Son Who Died in Walz’s Guard Unit Comes Forward

In recent days, it has been revealed that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz abandoned his National Guard unit after he got word it was being deployed to Iraq.

Walz has tried to explain this away as having done it because he was running for office.

His former battalion members don’t buy it, and neither does the mother of a soldier who died in action after Walz retired.

Blood on His Hands

Members of Walz’s former unit were livid over the fact that Walz left his unit without one of its senior non-commissioned officers while heading into battle.

This created a huge void in leadership, and it is not a stretch to say that lives were lost because of his decision.

Sgt. Kyle Miller, 19, was part of Walz’s 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery unit… and was killed in killed in Iraq on the deployment that Walz missed.

Kathy Miller, the young sergeant’s mother, stated, “My son wasn’t even 21 years old. He couldn’t even buy alcohol.

“Yet he took the step to serve our country while Walz found the best way to run away.

“It was the coward’s way out.”

Ms. Miller then took another shot at Walz, stating, “It makes you wonder if he will bow out in some manner and not accomplish the job he is supposed to get done.”

Walz has also lied about his rank, claiming that he retired as a Command Sergeant Major, but that rank was revoked and he was returned to a Sergeant Major because he did not meet the requirement of the promotion.

Walz has also used some creative phrasing to make it sound as though he carried a weapon in a war zone, but that was not the case either.

The really sad thing is that Walz did not need to twist the facts here.

The man served in the National Guard and rose to the rank of Sergeant Major during a 24-year career, so everyone would respect that.

It was only because he lied about his rank and having carried a weapon during the war that so much scrutiny is now being paid to his record.

This is why former battalion members are now coming out of the woodwork to call him out, as well as Ms. Miller, for abandoning his troops when they needed him most.

For instance, two retired Command Sergeants Major, Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr, posted on social media in 2018 after Walz’s website noted that he retired as a Command Sergeant Major.

They wrote, “On May 16th, 2005, [Walz] quit, betraying his country, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging; without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war.”

Every service member I know believes it is right to criticize Walz for what he did and said, so I will defer to their judgment having never served in the military myself.