HONOLULU — Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii is taking two weeks off from her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign to participate in Army National Guard training.

Gabbard announced the two-week break in a statement Monday. She will return to the campaign trail on Aug. 25.

Gabbard is a major in the Army National Guard who has served in the military for more than 16 years and deployed to Iraq in 2004 and Kuwait in 2008.

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She will be participating in a joint-training exercise with the Indonesian military. Gabbard says she is "grateful to be able to serve our country and the American people in many ways, including as a soldier."

Gabbard is the first female combat veteran to run for U.S. president. She was elected to Congress in 2012.

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