Here are recent headlines about the military in Kansas:Fort Riley ¢ 1st Infantry Division(49abcnews.com) Wounded warriors: Life after the military: I recently met First Sergeant Kevin Walker. This brave Fort Riley soldier survived an IED blast; he suffered a traumatic brain injury and lost his left eye. But he rejoined his unit at Fort Riley. Now, three years later, he has another obstacle. What he will do now that he’s about to retire from the Army? “I got hit with an IED,” 1st Sgt. Kevin Walker, 1st Battalion, 34th Armor, said. “It hit my vehicle on the right side and I had a piece of shrapnel come up through the window, hit me on the right side of my nose and went back behind my eye, damaged the nerve behind my left eye and into my brain.”(Stars and Stripes) Unit remembers deadly day, fallen brethren: At around 10:30 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, five men in a Humvee led a five-truck patrol through the traffic of Route Predator, known as one of the deadliest roads in the New Baghdad district of Iraq’s capital. In the vehicle were Sgt. Joel Murray, 26, the truck commander, riding in the front passenger seat; Spc. David Lane, 20, the driver; Pvt. Randy Shelton, 22, the turret gunner; and in the back, Pfcs. Joseph Mixson, 22, and Duncan Crookston, 20. The patrol was on its way to a gas station, where the men of Company C’s 2nd Platoon were taking an engineer to do some assessment work of concrete barriers protecting the location. As the soldiers neared the station at about 10:45, an explosion went off, said Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Smith, 31, who was the acting platoon leader that morning and riding in the fourth vehicle of the convoy. Three of the men – Murray, Lane and Shelton – were killed when an explosively formed penetrator, a weapon favored by Shiite militias, ripped through their Humvee. Two others in the truck suffered multiple amputations and severe burns, altering their lives forever. All of the men were with the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, based in Fort Riley, Kan. The brigade did not exist before the U.S. troop “surge,” and was, in fact, created specifically out of the order to push 30,000 more troops into Iraq earlier this year.(AP) Atheist Soldier Revises Lawsuit: Attorneys for a soldier who claims he has been harassed for being an atheist amended his lawsuit Tuesday after the military said it couldn’t find the officer initially listed as a defendant. The amended complaint, filed in federal court in Kansas City, Kan., names Maj. Freddy J. Welborn and Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The plaintiffs, Spec. Jeremy Hall and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, had sued Gates and a Maj. Paul Welborne, but military officials said they couldn’t find an officer by that name.