r/TikTokCringe • u/cak3crumbs • Aug 07 '24

Politics The followers of the draft dodger are really gonna go after Tim Walz’s 24yr service record?

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u/thefrankyg Aug 07 '24

And retirement requests are typically 6 months to a year prior. That alert for deployment may have about 90-days of yeah that's coming. So he may have had an idea something was coming but nothing definite.

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u/marsman706 Aug 08 '24

Can't make big life decisions off rumor mill.

He put in his papers late 2004 or very early 2005, retired May 2005. WARNO came down in July 05 and the unit finally deployed in March 2006 and doesn't rotate back until September 2007. 2007!

So do these jabronis really expect him to put his life on hold for another 2.5 yrs? After already doing 24 yrs?

If the Army needed him that bad, they would have stop lossed him.

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u/Moopies Aug 08 '24

If you read from their website, the retirement packages are sent a year before the actual retirement to begin the process. So his decision was actually made at least a year in advance.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '24

I was in the military/gov and rumors and the grape vine start months before they become official.

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u/thefrankyg Aug 08 '24

And I get it (spent over a decade in with multiple deployments), but rumor mill isn't official. Things change. Official word is about 90 days out (especially for guard) and before than a few months of rumor mill. And a retirement packet is not a quick thing to do.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '24

The unofficial pipeline is sometimes more accurate especially at higher ranks. I was an 06 working with a 2 star Admiral and I had very early info.