Here are recent headlines about the military in Kansas:Kansas military bases(AP) House spending bill would cut projects for Kansas military bases: Kansas’ GOP lawmakers on Wednesday denounced a House spending bill they said would cut special project funding to the state’s military bases, but Democrats said most, if not all, of the funds would come back to military sites in another form. The legislation would cut more than $450 million in programs at Fort Riley, Fort Leavenworth, McConnell Air Force Base, Forbes Field and Smoky Hill Bomb Range.Democrats stripped earmarks out of the measure passed Wednesday, a massive spending bill funding about one-sixth of the federal budget. The bill was needed after the last Congress left without finishing work on most of the annual spending bills that fund the federal government.But many of the earmarks cut were destined for Kansas military installations. That includes a loss of more than $300 million for housing and other improvements at Fort Riley, which needs to accommodate thousands of troops and their families with the return of the 1st Infantry Division.Fort Leavenworth would see cuts of about $68 million for a Joint Regional Correctional Facility.”It is outrageous that in a time of war Democrats have cut funding for national security, including housing needs for our troops at Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth,” Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., said in a statement.But Rep. Nancy Boyda, D-Kan., whose district includes both sites, said the funds that would have been allocated for those projects are now going to the Defense Department in a lump sum.”The money that had been earmarked is going back to the Department of Defense and they will make the best decisions possible,” Boyda said. “I feel very, very certain that Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth will be taken care of. They are at the center of the war on terror.”Fort Riley(Hilltop Times) Hill Airman steps into different world: It’s been a cold initiation into Army life for Capt. Suzanne McLaughlin since she arrived at Fort Riley, Kansas, right before Thanksgiving, to attend a pre-deployment joint combat skills training course. “Literally : I mean it’s always freezing here in the open ranges where we train, and the wind is even worse than in Utah,” joked the transplanted Hill munitions officer. “And I don’t think I have to tell you that the Army spends a lot of time in the great outdoors!” Frozen appendages and a perpetually runny nose, however, actually represent the milder end of the spectrum in terms of obstacles conquered during daily training and assimilation into Army life.