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Exclusive | Chaplain of Tim Walz’s National Guard battalion calls VP pick ‘cowardly’ for abandoning unit

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was command sergeant major before retiring in 2005 , two months before the unit deployed to Iraq .

Walz has said he did so to run for Congress , and he was elected the next year .

Retired Capt. Corey Bjertness , the chaplain of Walz’s field artillery regiment, told The Post : “Running for Congress is not an excuse.”.

Command Sergeant Behrends says he thinks Walz resigned because he knew he wasn't up to the job.

“When your country calls, you are supposed to run into battle — not the other way,” he says.

He ran away. It's sad. It’s sad,’ he says of Walz .

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