Lawmakers Help Wounded Soldier Get Home
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Spc. Robert Loria of Middletown, N.Y., lost his arm in Iraq, but instead of a farewell paycheck from the Army he got a bill for nearly &#36;1,800. On Friday a platoon of New York lawmakers came to his rescue. Loria found himself stuck in Fort Hood in Texas this week when Army officials said he owed money for travel expenses and for lost equipment.
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Some members of Congress got flu shots before they headed home to campaign this month, despite the vaccine shortage. They were following the advice of the Capitol physician.
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One of the soldiers has proudly served in the military for 10 years. Another passed up a chance to remain safely at home, instead re-enlisting in the Army Reserve and heading to Iraq so "the young kids in that unit" would have someone experienced alongside them.
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Two months after his brain hemorrhage, South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson has left a Washington hospital and entered a private rehabilitation facility, his office said Tuesday.
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About 70 wounded soldiers a day have arrived at a U.S. military hospital from Iraq, about double the average before the beginning of the battle to oust Islamic militants from their former Fallujah stronghold, ...
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Ever since Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Kelly lost his right leg to a roadside bomb near Baghdad more than a year ago, he has been on a mission. It was more than just learning how to walk again on a prosthetic limb or figuring out what to do with his life after 13 months at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. Kelly, 24, of Prescott, Ariz., saw a need to help other wounded soldiers and their families cope with the financial struggles that come with months of rehabilitation.
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Legislators and the governor brokered a deal that ended the state budget impasse Monday night, and state workers will return to the job after nearly 24,000 people were sent home without pay.
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Problems over treatment of wounded soldiers that created a scandal at the top U.S. military veterans' hospital are prevalent throughout the Army's health care system, lawmakers said on Monday.
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KILLEEN, Texas -- Hollie Keahtigh had hoped until Thursday that her husband, an Army captain in Fort Hood's First Cavalry Division, would be home from Iraq to spend Christmas with her, their 5-year-old son, and 2-year-old daughter.
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The family of a soldier wounded in Iraq has been in turmoil since hearing word of their son s serious injuries in Tikrit.
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Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly after last year's massacre at Virginia Tech to make it harder for anyone with a history of mental illness to buy guns, fortifying what were already some of the nation's toughest weapons laws.
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The mother of a Ballston Spa soldier injured Friday in Iraq flew from Washington, D.C., late Tuesday afternoon to be with her son as he recovers.
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For every American soldier killed in Iraq, nine others have been wounded and survived &#151; the highest rate of any war in U.S. history. It isn't that their injuries were less serious, a new report says. In fact, some young soldiers and Marines have had faces, arms and legs blown off and are now returning home badly maimed.
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The President goes to Capitol Hill in an effort save the troubled bill
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Lawmakers promised a quick response and sought an independent commission as they expressed outrage Sunday over the poor conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Now a Purple Heart recipient, U. S. Army Spc. Jeffrey King, 23, of Crestview Road, who was critically wounded in Iraq last week, is holding his own.
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The adult son of a Pennsylvania lawmaker was missing Tuesday after reportedly being abducted on a street at gunpoint in the hours before his mother and sister were shot and wounded in their home.