Here are recent headlines about the military in Kansas:Fort Leavenworth(GovExec.com) Activist to sue Defense Department claiming religious bias: The activist who sparked a Defense Department investigation into the participation of a number of high-ranking officers in a video promoting the evangelical group Christian Embassy said on Thursday that he will soon file a lawsuit against the military in federal court in Kansas. Michael Weinstein, the president and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said in an interview that he wants to make sure Defense treats religion neutrally, and that religious proselytizing is barred at all levels of the chain of command. Weinstein spent 10 years in the Air Force as a judge advocate. “The only other thing we’re asking is that the federal judge order that no member of the military] ever be involuntarily pressured or coerced to change their religious faith during the duty day or the duty night,” Weinstein said. … He also alleged the use of anti-Semitic material in a Bible study curriculum at Fort Leavenworth and said a high-ranking general sent an e-mail invitation to a creationist event. But he declined to produce the documents he was referring to until the lawsuit is filed.Kansas National Guard[(El Paso Times) Drills prepare soldiers for casualties of war: McGREGOR RANGE, N.M. — The wounds looked real. Whistling mortar rounds gave rise to shouts of “incoming,” signaling soldiers to cover their injured comrades with their own bodies, temporarily freezing the frenetic motion of the mass-casualty exercise. As soon as the reverberations from the real explosions subsided, the soldiers burst back into action, continuing their efforts to stop bleeding and to prepare casualties for transport to better-equipped aid stations. The Combat Lifesaver training exercise on Thursday was the last for the Kansas National Guard’s 35th Military Police Company. After the exercise, they headed for a short leave before heading to Iraq. (Topeka Capital-Journal) Unit returns Sunday from year in Iraq: Approximately 150 soldiers of the Kansas National Guard’s 714th Security Forces will arrive in Topeka on Sunday after a year-long tour of duty in Iraq, where they provided convoy security. The soldiers will arrive at about noon at the Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority’s Million Air Terminal at Forbes Field on S. Topeka Boulevard. They will be greeted by Brig. Gen. Jonathan Small, assistant adjutant general, during a short welcome-home ceremony.