Walz filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission as a candidate for Congress on February 10, 2005. The next month, after the guard announced a possible deployment to Iraq within two years, Walz’s campaign issued a statement saying he intended to stay in the race.
“I do not yet know if my artillery unit will be part of this mobilization and I am unable to comment further on specifics of the deployment,”
Walz said in the March 2005 campaign release. Walz retired from the Army National Guard in May 2005, according to the Minnesota National Guard.
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.
Bugs Marlowe
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