Articles filed under Tammy Duckworth: We Were Almost Home
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Images: Congresswoman Duckworth at work in Washington D.C.
Nov 12, 2014 12:23 PM - U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth is finishing her first term in Congress. -
Images: Tammy Duckworth's Illinois National Guard Duty, October 2014
Nov 12, 2014 12:23 PM - U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth went through her final drill weekend with the Illinois National Guard this year at Camp Lincoln in Springfield. -
A soldier's story of undying valor
Nov 12, 2014 9:02 AM - Editor's note: This story appeared Nov. 27, 2005 in the Daily Herald. WASHINGTON -- On the morning of Nov. 12, Army Maj. Ladda "Tammy"Duckworth lies half-awake in her bed. An IV pumps antibiotics into her right arm. -
10 years after losing her legs, Duckworth returns to flying
Apr 29, 2015 10:04 AM - "When I got back in a helicopter, it felt like home." Ten years after she lost her legs when a rocket-propelled grenade hit her helicopter in Iraq, Tammy Duckworth is beginning to fly again. This has been a year of many changes for Duckworth, who said she misses being a soldier but finds strength in her friendship with the soldiers who saved her life. -
The day Capt. Tammy Duckworth was shot down
Nov 14, 2014 11:04 AM - "We were almost home." Captain Tammy Duckworth and her crew were minutes from their base in Balad, Iraq, when a rocket-propelled grenade hit their Black Hawk helicopter and forced it down in enemy territory on Nov. 12, 2004. It was 10 years ago today when Duckworth lost her both legs and partial use of one arm and launched a career in politics. This is the story of that critical moment and of the soldiers who saved her life. -
Dan Milberg's account of Nov. 12, 2004Nov 12, 2014 12:41 PM - Pilot in command Dan Milberg wrote this account several days after a Black Hawk helicopter carrying him, Tammy Duckworth, Kurt Hanneman and Chris Fierce was forced down by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq.
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How two helicopter crews got Duckworth out of Iraq
Nov 12, 2014 12:33 PM - In a damaged Black Hawk helicopter in enemy territory in Iraq, Tammy Duckworth and her crew were easy targets. The person who fired the rocket-propelled grenade could not be more than a half mile away, and three of the four crew members were injured, Duckworth severely. "I am a warrior and a member of a team," says the Soldier's Creed. Together, they all made it out. -
The crew on Nov. 12, 2004
Nov 11, 2014 11:45 AM - Ten years ago today, U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth was piloting a Black Hawk helicopter that was shot down over Iraq. That critical moment cost her both legs and partial use of one arm and launched a career in politics. On the annivesary, she and her former crew members talk in detail about what happened in Iraq and their journeys over the past decade. -
Images: Tammy Duckworth in the Suburbs
Nov 11, 2014 5:30 AM - Like many federal lawmakers, particularly freshmen, U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a Hoffman Estates Democrat, keeps a busy schedule of public events. -
Images: Tammy Duckworth runs for Congress
Nov 11, 2014 5:30 AM - U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a Hoffman Estates Democrat, was first elected to Congress in 2012 following a campaign against Republican Joe Walsh. She represents the 8th Congressional District.
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