The Harris Campaign website has reportedly “tweaked” (read: corrected) the military record of its vice presidential candidate, Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, after it was exposed that Walz has been exaggerating his rank at the time of his retirement from the Army National Guard in 2005.
After Harris chose Walz as her running mate, media scrutinized his background and discovered this week that he had been claiming to have retired as a command sergeant major when, in fact, he retired at the lower rank of master sergeant.
On Thursday, in a story titled “Harris campaign tweaks Walz biography amid scrutiny of military credentials,” Politico reported that the Harris campaign has “axed a reference to Walz as a ‘retired command sergeant major’ and now says that he once served at the command sergeant major rank.”
Walz’s original biography on the campaign site called Walz “the son of an Army veteran and a retired Command Sergeant Major in the Army National Guard himself,” Politico reports.
The Harris campaign website’s Walz biography now reads:
“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.”
But, despite the strong public condemnation of Walz’s embellishment, the governor has yet to correct the falsehood on his official government website biography.
As of the publication of this article, the governor’s website still implies that Walz retired as a command sergeant major:
“After 24 years in the Army National Guard, Command Sergeant Major Walz retired from the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion in 2005.”
