After 24 years, and serving abroad already, he decided he would serve better by running on a platform in 2006 that was against the WMD-not-finding war. That is admirable if you thought Gulf II was getting US soldiers killed for Haliburton's profits, not national security.
Looks like the rewording of the law happened over a year ago. Has this been relevant in a single case yet?
So written by a far-right MAGA extremist, Dan Hollaway, who hosts the "Drinkin' Bros Podcast" (doing shots for Trump) promoting Civil war and all sorts of other nonsensical twaddle.
Your forgot to mention that this is a pay-to-play Opinion piece placed in Newsweek -- it's basically the same as advertising. Let's read the entire title -- To Combat Veterans Like Me, Tim Walz's Abandonment of His Unit Is Unforgivable | Opinion Let's read the bottom of the article - "The views in this article are the writer's own."
I can't blame Walz for bailing out before his unit deployed to Iraq. One, he did his time honorably. Two, by the time they deployed anyone with a brain knew the war was bullshit. Three, if you have never served go fuck yourself, you don't get to judge. All that said, there are many more substantive issues to oppose him on, like being a radical left lunatic who supports sexual mutilation of children.