Army Puts Amputees Back Into Combat
In the blur of smoke and blood after a bomb blew up under his Humvee in
Iraq, Sgt. Tawan Williamson looked down at his shredded leg and knew it couldn't be saved. His military career, though, pulled through. Less than a year after the attack, Williamson is running again with a high-tech prosthetic leg and plans to take up a new assignment, probably by the fall, as an Army job counselor and affirmative action officer in Okinawa, Japan.
In an about-face by the
Pentagon, the military is putting many more amputees back on active duty -- even back into combat, in some cases.
AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | May 30, 2007 04:53 PM