Brooke Army Medical Center News

As of Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at least 2,197 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

The Defense Department says 20-year-old Pfc. Donnell Antwain Hamilton Jr. of Kenosha, Wisconsin, died at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.

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Pfc. Donnell A. Hamilton, Jr., 20, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, died July 24, at Brooke Army Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, from an illness sustained in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.

Actor Denzel Washington, known for his dynamic roles in Flight and Glory , has embraced Greater Fisher House, a charity that works with the military.

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE >> The McAfee Clinic welcomed a new commander to its new state of the art facility.

Mills was one of half a dozen soldiers whom Cashe pulled from a burning Bradley Fighting Vehicle after a roadside bomb hit it in Iraq on Oct. 17, 2005.

A terminally ill cancer patient in Texas who was told she only had a short time to live last year is celebrating six months with her baby boy who was born healthy thanks to a revolutionary new treatment.

Nicholas Rocco Cardinal hasn't been a boy for a while. He's 20, more than 6 feet tall and as lean and solid as the cool pines that grow in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in northern Arizona, where he was raised.

U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has not been speaking with his family in the five weeks since he was released by the Taliban after five years in captivity, according to a report.

Bexar Bibliotech Technology Assistant Lynette Barrera, left, helps out Staff Sgt.

Afloat. In the largest maritime salvage project in history, crews are raising the Costa Concordia from its resting place just off the Italian coast in preparation to tow it back to its home port of Genoa to be scrapped.

Bowe Bergdahl, the Army sergeant who spent nearly five years as a Taliban captive in Afghanistan, was returned to regular duty Monday with a desk job that makes him available to Army investigators for questioning about his disappearance in 2009.

Family and friends say Melvin Santiago had dreamed of being a police officer since he was a boy, seeking to follow in the footsteps of his uncle.

U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl completed counseling at a hospital in San Antonio, Texas, and is expected to return to active duty as soon as Monday, defense officials said.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will arrive in the United States overnight, a U.S. official said today.

At least that's what he says. She swears it was the summer after sixth grade, maybe seventh.

Over 75 participants displayed their patriotic pride, while three received the "most patriotic" award.

In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt.

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is "just about done" with the final phase of his reintegration, a military source with access to information on Bergdahl's care told CNN.