Here are recent headlines about the military in Kansas:Fort Leavenworth(Topeka Capital-Journal) Soldier’s funeral set: Funeral arrangements have been set for Kansas Army National Guard Sgt. Courtney Dean Finch, who died in Iraq this past week. A visitation for Finch, 27, of Leavenworth, will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Davis Funeral Chapel, 531 Shawnee, in Leavenworth. A graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery. A reception will follow at 11 a.m. at the Veteran’s of Foreign Wars Post 56, 519 Cherokee, in Leavenworth. The U.S. Department of Defense is still investigating the cause of Finch’s death. Investigators said the Kansas soldier wasn’t killed in combat.(Times Online, UK) US braced for bloody pull-out: AT THE Army College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Major Daniel Morgan is studying the lessons for Iraq of the Soviets’ chaotic exit from Afghanistan in the late 1980s. The roads were choked with tanks and heavy weaponry, making the demoralised soldiers easy prey for guerillas. “The Soviet Army actually had to fight out of certain areas,” said Morgan, who has served twice in Iraq. …The Soviet rout from Afghanistan is one of the worst-case scenarios that a rapid withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq could provoke. “They had to airlift out of Kandahar, the fighting was so bad,” Morgan recalled. Another nightmare image remains familiar decades on – the helicopters taking off from the roof of the US embassy in Saigon, leaving desperate Vietnamese allies to their fate.Fort Riley ¢ 1st Infantry Division(News Review) Glendale soldier remembered for loyalty to school: The Glendale community was hit hard Wednesday night and Thursday as word spread through town that Leckel, 19, was killed this week in Iraq. Leckel, an infantryman with the U.S. Army, was fatally injured from small arms fire in southern Baghdad. Other details about his death are sketchy. The Army notified his family but the Department of Defense has not yet issued an official public announcement. Additional information is expected to be released in the next several days. Plans are being made for a service to be held in Glendale, but those won’t be firmed up until it’s known when Leckel’s body will be returned to the United States. On Friday, condolences began appearing on Leckel’s MySpace page. It can be viewed at www.myspace.com/danthemanleckel. Leckel listed “sports, movies, hangin’ out with friends,” as some of his interests. He wrote that his heroes were “Jesus Christ, all my friends, my parents.”Kansas National Guard(AP) Kansan’s death in Iraq not combat-related: The death of a 27-year-old Kansas National Guard sergeant in Iraq is being investigated, but military officials say it’s not combat-related. Courtney Dean Finch died Tuesday of unknown causes, the Kansas National Guard announced Thursday. Finch, of Leavenworth, was a member of the 714th Security Force, Kansas National Guard in Topeka. Finch had more than six years of military service. He enlisted in July 2001 with the Kansas Army National Guard Company C, 1st Battalion 635th Armor in Lenexa as a tank crewman. He completed his basic combat training at Fort Jackson, S.C., and advanced individual training in Fort Knox, Ky. In June 2006, Finch deployed with the 714th Security Force to Iraq.