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Friday, May 9, 2008

Leonard Timm, right, co-founder of Disability Rights Advocates for Technology, gives disabled veterans some pointers on using their new Segways. Since 2006, DRAFT's Segs4Vets project has awarded 150 Segways to those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. | See story, photo gallery and video

A former Guantanamo detainee freed in 2005 after being held for more than three years allegedly carried out a suicide attack in Mosul last month, according to U.S. military officials and Islamic extremist groups.

More than 43,000 troops deployed despite listing as medically unfit

More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, USA Today reported Thursday, citing Pentagon records.

Military Update: Senators OK extra leave for military dads

About 76,000 active-duty servicemembers will father babies next year if recent military birthrates hold. The Senate Armed Services Committee has voted to give those new fathers 21 days of paternity leave after their children are born or within 60 days of fathers' return from deployment.

Family of slain woman wants admiral to testify

The family of a Japanese woman who was beaten to death by a USS Kitty Hawk sailor in 2006 wants the commander of U.S. naval forces in Japan to testify in a civil trial.