My name is Tammy Duckworth, and I lived on food stamps as a teenager, grew up to become an Army Black Hawk pilot, got shot down in Iraq, lost my legs, and then became a mother and a U.S. Senator. AMA. - Politics

My name is Tammy Duckworth, and I lived on food stamps as a teenager, grew up to become an Army Black Hawk pilot, got shot down in Iraq, lost my legs, and then became a mother and a U.S. Senator. AMA.
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My name is Tammy Duckworth, and I lived on food stamps as a teenager, grew up to become an Army Black Hawk pilot, got shot down in Iraq, lost my legs, and then became a mother and a U.S. Senator. AMA.

Posted: 05 May 2021 09:02 AM PDT

Hi, Reddit! My name is Tammy Duckworth, and although I'm a U.S. Senator now, I never imagined I'd become a politician.

I grew up in Southeast Asia, dodged bullets as a kid in Cambodia, and moved to Hawaii with my dad and brother when I was 15. We lived on food stamps there, and I handed out booze cruise flyers and sold roses by the side of the road to support my family.

I joined the Army after college and became one of a handful of female helicopter pilots. In 2004, I deployed to Iraq, where my Black Hawk was shot down by an enemy RPG that blew into the cockpit and exploded in my lap. My fellow soldiers rescued me, and I barely made it out of Iraq alive. I lost both my legs and partial use of my right arm, and spent 13 months recovering at Walter Reed hospital.

In 2006, I ran for the U.S. House of Representatives… and lost. But I picked myself up and ran again in 2012, and that time, I won. After two terms in the House, I won a seat in the U.S. Senate, where I became the first senator to give birth. I'm now the mother to two beautiful girls. As a hungry, biracial kid just fighting to graduate high school, I could never have imagined the way my life has turned out.

Here's a 6-minute video about my life: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/note-to-self-senator-tammy-duckworth/

Here's a People magazine article with photos from my Army career and family: https://people.com/politics/sen-tammy-duckworth-recaps-her-action-packed-life-in-a-new-memoir/

And here's the memoir I wrote, with more details about all these stories: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1538718502/

Let's do this, Reddit! Ask me anything!

Proof: https://i.redd.it/x8qzwi0klzw61.jpg

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