Here are recent headlines about the military in Kansas:Fort Leavenworth(eMilitary.org)New Playbook Aims to Help Reconstruction Teams in Iraq, Afghanistan: Coalition teams working to rebuild communities in Iraq and Afghanistan have a new resource. The Provincial Reconstruction Team Playbook, a first-of-its-kind guide, has just been published by the Army’s Center for Lessons Learned, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Two of the center’s top leaders spoke about the document during a conference call today with online journalists and “bloggers.” “Guys were going out, putting together PRTs and operating,” said Army Col. Steve Mains, the center’s director. “But there wasn’t a whole lot of instruction for them on how to do that.” “Our PRTs that exist out there are out there with virtually no supporting mechanism,” said retired Air Force Col. Mike McCoy, lead analyst on the project. “They have to rely on the people they are with.” To get a first-hand look at how team members were conducting missions with local citizens, CALL embedded 15 staffers with PRTs throughout Iraq and Afghanistan.Fort Riley ¢ 1st Infantry Division(AP) Wounded soldiers ponder progress, next step in Iraq war: FORT RILEY, Kan. For Staff Sgt. Walter Radick and his buddies, coming under fire in Baghdad was the price of serving in the infantry. Getting wounded or killed in combat, though, would happen to somebody else. But on Easter, when most Americans were sleeping, Radick was hit and, based on what his doctor told him, survived only because he and the shooter were in exactly the right positions. He’s back in Kansas recuperating, still irritated that he doesn’t know who shot him and knowing another soldier is preparing to take his place on the line. Ten soldiers from his unit, the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry, have died and 50 others have been wounded since they arrived in Iraq in February. They are part of President Bush’s 30,000 troops sent to stanch the violence in Baghdad’s neighborhoods.(The Spread) Giants rally after motivational speech from wounded Army officer: As a former Army football player and the commander of a 400-man battalion, Greg Gadson was used to speaking to large groups of people. But talking to the struggling New York Giants on Saturday on the eve of their game against the Redskins in Washington, Gadson was a little nervous. So the lieutenant colonel who lost both legs when an explosive device detonated near his vehicle on patrol in Baghdad spoke from his heart. He spoke of concentrating on the mission, never giving up and believing in each other. … His long-range goal is to walk with his prosthetics in about a year, although he admits that might be pushing it. For now, he wants to be at Fort Riley, Kan., when his battalion returns from its deployment. “I am not bitter,” said Gadson, who fought in the first Gulf War, and served in Bosnia and Afghanistan before his recent tour in Iraq.(AP) Georgia Soldier Killed in Iraq: The Pentagon says a Fort Riley soldier from Georgia has died in Iraq. The Department of Defense said that 22-year-old Joshua H. Reeves, of Watkinsville, Georgia, was killed Saturday when a bomb exploded near his vehicle in Baghdad. Reeves was assigned to the Second Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, part of the First Infantry Division’s Fourth Brigade.