Even if he had suspicions, he'd been in service for 24 years, which is huge.
If I worked for someone for 24 years and they looked like they wanted to go fight overseas, I'd absolutely consider retirement as well.
Service to your country isn't accomplished exclusively by going overseas to shoot people.
Republicans are literally speed running a 100% completed anti-christ identity. Not even in the specific 'end of days antichrist', but like literally, specifically, the complete opposite of absolutely everything their Christian deity Jesus stood for.
Funny, because with a fraction of typing and effort that you put into the previous two of your comments, you could’ve just googled that, and you would’ve gotten your answer.
That being the case, you obviously aren’t interested in knowing the answer to that question, you’re just here to troll.
He filed his campaign paperwork in February 2005, which would have necessitated his retirement. In March the MN Guard announced a partial deployment but his unit wasn't specifically told they were deploying, he retired in May, his unit received orders to deploy in July.