Here are recent headlines about the military in Kansas:Fort Riley ¢ 1st Infantry Division(Manhattan Mercury) Post, training impress delegation: Five members of the House Armed Services Committee got a crash course on military transition team training at Fort Riley Monday, and came away impressed, but wishing the training method had started sooner. “If I have a regret, it is that we did not do this two years ago,” said U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., who chairs the House Armed Services Committee. “In my opinion the situation in Iraq would be far different had we been training the Iraqi military as they are doing today. It is my firm belief that this is an excellent mission that seems to be working well.” Second District Rep. Nancy Boyda served as host for the delegation, which included Michael Conaway, R-Texas. Maj. Gen. Carter Ham, commander of the 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley, and other members of his command group escorted the Congressional delegation. “We all need to understand what is going on with these MTT teams,” Boyda said. “They are the way we’re going to bring this war in Iraq to a close and to be able to bring our soldiers home.”[(National Public Radio) Training the trainers at Fort Riley:][2] At Fort Riley, Kansas, U.S. soldiers training for a mission in Iraq stopped briefly last week to attend a memorial for Sgt. 1st Class John Scott Stephens, an adviser who had been killed in Iraq. After the ceremony, Stephens’ fellow soldiers filed out of the chapel and resumed training for that same mission. Within an hour, an American major arrived at a mock Iraqi town, where he advised a pretend raid by actors playing Iraqi soldiers. “We got three detainees, all three hurt, one with severe bleeding, arterial, we’ve got a tourniquet on him,” Maj. Jason Figuerido said, as the contractors playing Iraqi villagers demand to know what was going on. An interpreter relayed their questions to the Americans: “We heard weapons shot, what happened?”Fort Leavenworth[(AllAmericanPatriots.com) Military : General Officer Assignments:][3] The chief of staff, Army announces the assignment of the following officers: Brig. Gen. Joe E. Ramirez Jr., deputy commanding general, Combined Arms Center for Training, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to assistant division commander, 2d Infantry Division, Eighth U.S. Army, Korea. [1]: www.themercury.com/News/article.aspx?articleId=c3ca29c4b2fa4986953f180f1a1e711d [2]: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9134334