JD Vance Calls Out Tim Walz's Military Service: 'Stolen Valor Garbage'

Vice presidential candidate JD Vance criticized Kamala Harris' running mate Tim Walz over his military service. "What bothers me about Tim Walz is the stolen valor garbage."

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[ChristopherSmith-jx]

Walz's chaplain called him a coward for abandoning his men right before deployment putting them at risk in Iraq. Three died there.

[starnelson]

Tim waltz is like my drunk uncle who came over every Sunday for dinner & drank all the beers in the refrigerator and told funny exaggerated story and we all laughed at him not the story & he never knew the difference.

[NAVYSEABEE]

The problem with how JD Vance described it is, unless you are a Military Veteran, they may not understand the issue with it, it needs to be explained better to the public.

[davidgonzales]

My friend was a marine in vietnam and said he was afraid every second he was their. Buddy.

[ronaldirwin]

My m16 was automatic. Ar 15s aren't.

[mattwilliams]

Nobody uses an AR-15 in war…Tim should know that.

Is Tim gonna ban 9mm Barrettas…the standard side arm for USAF? Or the Army’s new Sig? Those are carried into war. Not that Tim actually went to war.

[Smoking_Rhino]

As someone who lives in MN, Tim Walz is pure garbage!

[tommytube]

Being in the military is following orders and if Vance’s orders were to go, then he goes! It’s not the same as seeing a shit storm coming and retiring to avoid that storm

[KoyoteeLaughter]

No. He didn't say that. He didn't say that. He said "that I carried in war". There was armed conflict going on in the Iraq and the Persian Gulf around that time, but he was just speaking generally. The truth is, neither of you carried a weapon in war because we weren't at war at that time. Those were considered police actions, not war. The U.S. never declared war, so both of you mispoke.

[DavidKomar-sb]

Those weapons are coming across our border.. 😂😂😂😂

[thomashovgaard]

And this is how you divert politics to personal smear. He is clearly referring to AR15 - waltz record is totally irrelevant.

[falkon]

Both of these guys served in Armed Forces, which is more than most internet commenters can say.

[spriddy]

Walz joined the Army National Guard at 17 years old. He served 21 years. During his service, Operation Desert Storm took place. Did Walz resign then? Nope. He didn’t get deployed there but easily could have. JD Vance spent 4 years in the Marine Corp as a war correspondent and in his book is quoted as saying he was “lucky to escape any real fighting". JD Vance should not be criticizing any man or woman who served their nation. His running mate couldn’t get a doctor’s note fast enough to avoid going to Vietnam. The same man who said John McCain was not a war hero because he was captured. If Vance wants to put his military record up against Walz’s, that’s a battle Walz will win every time. Just shows how dense Vance is.

[JanetTodd-so]

4 years versus 24 years HUM. Walz retirement papers were filed before his unit deployed. Get your story straight.

[johnpurvis]

What kind of combat did private joker see?

[LindaSueWalrath]

WHOOPS NEWSWEEK- YOUR SLIP IS SHOWING!!!!

[dr]

To say that JD Vance's service as a veteran is diminished by the fact he didn't face real combat is just plain outright disrespectful to any veteran. Each role in the military is there for a reason and is needed, and the sacrifices of veterans should not be measured by if they "faced real combat."

[drobinson]

And Vance was a mllitary correspondent whats your point ...Waltz was 24 yrs service

[kornicopiakids]

And do you consider a pc a weapon of war?

[TheDodgerUk]

"tim" has done a lot of shit wrong with money, BUT I think this is what will kill him in politics (FBI, POLITICS)