Tim Walz was a Command Master Sergeant. There is no debate about that.
Your quibble is that he lost the rank at retirement. I'll give you that. Not a big deal.
You are obsessed with semantics at this point. It's like saying someone didn't really climb Everest because they came back down.
He held multiple positions within field artillery such as firing battery chief, operations sergeant, first sergeant, and culminated his career serving as the command sergeant major for the battalion," Army Lt. Col. Kristen Augé, Minnesota National Guard’s State Public Affairs Officer, told Just the News in a statement Wednesday.