NEW: Command Sgt. Major Paul Herr comes forward on Fox News, says Gov. Tim Walz deceptively left the National Guard when it was time to deploy to Iraq.

“He continually claims that he’s a retired sergeant Major. He is not. He is a retired master sergeant.” “He consistently told us as fellow sergeant majors at the time that he was going to go on the deployment.” “And at the same time he’s having back room conversations with other people, other entities inside the Minnesota National Guard to ensure that he could retire.” “He subverted the chain of command. He went around the chain of command… These are all important facts and he did it to continually feather his own bed. That was the shameful part of it.”