Wow.

Yahoo! News - Paratrooper Who Lost Leg in War Re-Enlists

(George) Perez is one of at least four amputees from the 82nd Airborne Division to re-enlist. With a new carbon-fiber prosthetic leg, Perez intends to show a medical board he can run an eight-minute mile, jump out of airplanes and pass all the other paratrooper tests that will allow him to go with his regiment to Afghanistan next year.

And...

Staff Sgt. Daniel Metzdorf, lost his right leg above the knee in a Jan. 27 blast. He appealed three times before the fitness board allowed him to stay on.

I read one of Stephen Ambrose's books about WWII a couple of years ago. He went into great detail at times about the deprivation of troops in the field, compared to the relative wealth of rear echelon troops, especially those in supply. For example, when the War Department began issuing newer, better insulated and waterproof boots, supply troops in Paris were the first to get them - not the infantrymen who really could have used them.

I wondered then whether this would be a good place to stick troops who are too wounded to continue in the field, but who could still serve. I bet they would be a lot more likely to keep the field troops in mind.