Brooke Army Medical Center News

Yancy Baer deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan _ and when he came home the last time in 2009 to face the amputation of a leg _ Vietnam veterans were always there to greet him and lend their support.

Wounded Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans Gabe Monreal, Yancy Baer and Chris Rosebrock set off March 31, 2014, from Da Nang, Vietnam on a six-day, 320-mile cycling trip to raise money for Vietnam veterans who want to return to Vietnam for the first time since the war, but cannot afford to make the trip.

V.I. National Guard Col. Benedict Mitchell poses with his wife, Grisselle, and their 6-year-old twins, Angel and Giselle.

A vehicle Hughes was riding in exploded in Ghanzni, Afghanistan, on April 13, 2011.

The wounded warrior from Maryville suffered a number of injuries, including the loss of one of his legs, during an attack in Afghanistan more than two years ago.

U.S. Army First Sgt. Richard Smith arrives for his trial at Lackland Air Force Base on Thursday, April 3, 2014.

Less than five years after an Army psychiatrist went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, the military base has been shaken by another shooting.

A former soldier and amateur athlete who lost a leg to a roadside bomb blast in Iraq says golf has become both therapy and a passion.

Soldiers participate in physical therapy while using a prosthetic brace called the Intrepid Dynamic Exoskeletal Orthosis , which allows them to use and strengthen severely injured legs.

It has been more than two years since Trost was shot five times during an attack in Afghanistan.

Lt. Col. Judson Nelson talks about surviving the Green Ramp disaster during a ceremony Monday, March 24, 2014, on Fort Bragg, N.C., marking the 20th anniversary of the event.

Manufacturer Berchtold USA has agreed to pay the federal government $3.6 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that it overcharged a U.S. Army hospital for OR tables and other medical equipment.