Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) blasted Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) for peddling “stolen valor garbage,” citing that Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate “abandoned” his unit just before it was deployed to Iraq.

“As a marine who served his country in uniform, when the United States Marine Corps, when the United States of America, asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it,” Vance said during an event in Michigan on Wednesday. “I did it honorably, and I’m very proud of that service.”