BREAKING: Vets who served with Tim Walz SLAM him for cowardice, lying amid ongoing stolen valor controversy

Veterans who served with Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz joined Megyn Kelly to speak out about Tim Walz's military record and false statements amid his stolen valor scandal.

Megyn Kelly introduced the controversy, the accusations of stolen valor against Walz, and then introduced four veterans who served with him before his political career. Some of the men in the group were Command Sergeant Majors, the position that Walz has falsely claimed multiple times over the years in his political career.

The four veterans that appeared on the show included retired Command Sergeant Major Tom Behrends, retired Sergeant First Class Tom Schilling, retired Command Sergeant Major Paul Herr, and Rodney Town who was a peer of Walz and is a retired First Sergeant.

Kelly asked the veterans about his career and wanted to know if Walz had known that he would be going to be deployed to Iraq in the spring of 2005. Behrends was the one who took his position and told Kelly, "I spent 34 years in the Army, almost 13 of those as a Sergeant Major."

Behrends added that if he were to leave right before deployment like Walz had done to his men, "that's a morale crusher. It screws away at the fabric of the military and its ability to do its mission ... It may not legally be wrong. It is morally indefensible."

The four men all agreed that Walz would have known he was going to be deploying to Iraq before he got official orders. When Kelly asked the veterans what they thought as a peer to Walz at the time, Town added, "I don't know how he could live with himself after he did that to his soldiers. ... That military unit that is the same thing as a family, that's your military family."

He said that Walz turned his back on his men, recalling that he asked at the time "How could he just quit?" Town said that the move showed that he lacked integrity. 

Schilling, commenting on Walz implying that he took weapons into combat, said, "I mean, what he said, about going into combat, that's sacred. Because people lose their lives, limbs. Sometimes they have kids at home."

The four veterans, in their experiences with Walz, did not think that he honored his role in the military. When Walz retired, his position was reduced from Command Sergeant Major to Master Sergeant as he did not complete the qualifications for being permanently appointed as a Command Sergeant Major. They all wanted him to apologize publicly for making the false statements around his military record. 

Behrends previously wrote in a letter about Walz, "In early 2005, a warning order was issued to the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, which included the position [Walz] was serving in, to prepare to be mobilized for active duty for a deployment to Iraq. On May 16th, 2005 he quit, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging; without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war."