The problem with that argument is that you are relying upon an oral history of someone who claims to have remembered things from 2005. Well I'm demanding that JD Vance prove that he did not bang his couch over and over. i read it, ergo it must be true. If he can't prove that he did not bang his couch, then it must be true that he did bang his couch.
Why are all the Vetern groups coming out and supporting Walz on this issue? "Tim submitted his retirement request to the U.S. Army National Guard months prior to the notification of his unit's deployment," they explained. "His unit was fully sourced (staffed), and his request was approved. He retired in May 2005."
"A National Guard
article on his unit’s deployment states that it received alert orders to deploy to Iraq in July 2005, two months after Walz retired. The unit first mobilized in the fall of 2005 to Camp Shelby Mississippi to prepare for deployment, according to
the unit’s history, and then deployed in March 2006 for 22 months, which the Guard said was the longest continuous deployment of any military unit during US operations in Iraq."
Hyperlinked to the article are the source documents
It still isn't good enough. "He shoulda stayed and fought no matter what"; "He was a coward" and on and on.