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I'm out of the loop on this. Any chance I could ask someone to catch me up?
Walz was in the National Guard for 24 years and put in his resignation well before he learned his unit would be deployed to Iraq.
Vance - who is a Marine who served one tour as a journalist and never saw combat - attacked Walz for 'stolen valor' as he never saw combat.
It's massively hypocritical, has been tried before successfully against John Kerry, (Swiftboating was the term back then) and is coming from the VP of a candidate who avoided Vietnam due to crippling bone spurs, which should make it hard to do shit like play golf.
Both Vance and Walz are veterans. Vance has no grounds to attack Walz's service at all.
This article summarizes the case. VP Walz left the
Marine CorpsNational Guard after 24 years, and some people accuse him of leaving just before the iraq invasion.Minor correction: Walz was in the national guard.
Did he go to the first invasion?
Afghanistan or iraq part 1 (1991 desert Storm)? It's not mentioned anywhere so probably not.
Indeed. Iraq 2 was the first time National Guard was deployed abroad if I’m not mistaken.
by taking service in the Air National Guard, which he may or may not have taken seriously. People of a certain age may still see National Guard as a form of draft dodging akin to “bone spurs,” but it’s hard to argue that for a man who spent 20 years there.
When I hear the dude was a teacher and National Guards
My Grand-dad joined the Army National Guard for Korea. They've definitely been deployed overseas before.