So CNN doesn't know what they are talking about but instead of you berating the source you berate a new site who is reporting on the source who is fact checking Walz' military record.
Secondly, the issue is not whether Walz was a CSM during his 2 years but rather did he RETIRED as Command Sergeant Major as he claims which the Nationak Guard said it is not. If he says otherwise it is misleading.
There are several ways to splice the story, but when Walz submitted his retirement request, he was still a CSM. Rank insignia right there on his uniform. Go ahead and check the timeline if you wish.
So Walz is playing on a technicality. Demoted to Master Sergeant a few months after retiring but still bragging he retired as a Command Sergeant Major. Yet that isn't the official position of the Minnesota NG. Interesting.
"Earlier this week Harris’ campaign circulated on X a 2018 clip of Walz speaking out against gun violence, and saying, “We can make sure that those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at.” That comment suggests that Walz portrayed himself as someone who spent time in a combat zone."
That comment suggests that Walz portrayed himself as someone who spent time in a combat zone.
This is a silly thing to get hung up on. A soldier in the Army statistically has little chance of seeing combat. Only about 10% of US soldiers actually pull any trigger, as in serve as infantry, artillery or cavalry. Not all of those even see real combat.
If (then) MSG Walz had deployed, unless his command post was overrun by the enemy (super unlikely) he wouldn't have seen combat. Even if he didn't deploy, he's guaranteed to have at least carried his assigned rifle, during that time.
Anyway, you're getting upset about something the guy said years ago about how dangerous assault rifles are. Being a hunter, he knows that they would rip apart anything you shot with them, so there wouldn't be much left to eat.