In 2016, Command Sargent Major Thomas Behrends, who took over Walz's battalion after Walz retired from military service in 2005, penned a private letter to Walz imploring him to stop using the title of Command Sergeant Major.
"It saddens me that after your long career in the National Guard, that you did not fulfill the conditions of your promotion to Command Sergeant Major...It's quite a title to have, when it has been earned.
I would hope that you haven't been using the rank for political gain, but that is how it appears."
"At the point when he quit, the balloon was deflated and all the soldiers out here, basically it was like one of their main senior leaders had died.
They couldn't believe it," Behrends said in an interview with ABC News.
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