Tulsi Gabbard is taking a 2-week break from the presidential campaign for Army training

Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is taking a two-week break from the campaign to attend Army National Guard training.

Gabbard, an Army National Guard major with more than 16 years of military service, will take part in a joint-training exercise with the Indonesian military.

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HONOLULU (AP) — 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 August 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.

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 US president. She was elected to Congress in 2012.