Uproar over Walz’s military record masks real concerns about what Trump 2.0 might mean for our military

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It’s good for America that two former non-commissioned officers (NCOs) are on the major parties’ tickets: as every servicemember knows, NCOs are the men and women who really run the military and get things done. And Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance’s four years as a Marine give him both the right to characterize his Democratic counterpart, Gov. Tim Walz’s 24 years of National Guard service, but also the responsibility as a fellow veteran to do so fairly.

Briefly, Vance accuses Walz of misrepresenting himself as having served in combat, of misidentifying himself as a retired command sergeant major, and of shirking his field artillery unit’s deployment to Iraq. 

As it stands, Vance’s criticisms of Walz are ill-founded. They distract from more important questions about the dangers a second Donald Trump administration would pose

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