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Tammy Duckworth served as a Black Hawk helicopter pilot during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 and is repeatedly described in official and reputable profiles as “among the first handful of Army women ...
Tammy Duckworth served in Iraq in 2004 as a UH‑60 Black Hawk helicopter pilot with the Illinois Army National Guard and “flew 120 combat hours over eight months” before her aircraft was struck by an R...
On November 12, 2004, Captain Tammy Duckworth was co‑piloting a UH‑60 Black Hawk during Operation Iraqi Freedom when insurgents fired a rocket‑propelled grenade that struck the aircraft; the explosion...
There is in the supplied reporting that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has used UH‑60 Black Hawk helicopters for domestic operations in cities such as Chicago. Contemporary articles de...
Tammy Duckworth is an Iraq War veteran, Purple Heart recipient and Democratic U.S. senator from Illinois whose public career has moved from military service and veterans’ advocacy into national politi...
Available reporting says Dylan Blaha served a deployment to Afghanistan (reported in his Substack, campaign materials and multiple news profiles) and has described more than five years on active duty ...
Publicly available biographies and official Senate and campaign materials consistently state that Tammy Duckworth deployed to Iraq in 2004 as an Illinois Army National Guard UH‑60 Black Hawk pilot, th...
Tammy Duckworth is a trained military helicopter pilot who flew UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters for the Illinois Army National Guard and served in Iraq; her aircraft was hit by an RPG on November 12, 200...