Tulsi is the first female combat veteran ever to run for the presidency and is the first female combat veteran ever elected t ... o Congress, along with Tammy Duckworth. Gabbard has served for over six years on the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Armed Services Committee where she's been intimately involved with sensitive, national security issues. A war veteran of two tours of duty in the Middle East and presently a major in the US Army National Guard, Gabbard is an outspoken critic of regime change wars and the new cold war. read more