** FILE ** In this May 26, 2006, file photo, Army Lt. Gen. William E. Kip Ward is administered the oath of four-star General, the Army's highest rank of general, by Command Sgt. Major Mark Ripka, right, at Fort Myer, Va. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
The trial of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, has been delayed a week because the military judge has said he will order the defendant to be shaved forcibly to appear in court and Mr. Hasan has appealed on religious grounds. He was supposed to enter a plea Wednesday. (Associated Press)
associated press The trial of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, has been delayed a week because the military judge has said he will order the defendant to be shaved forcibly to appear in court and Mr. Hasan has appealed on religious grounds. He was supposed to enter a plea Wednesday.
Syrian security investigate the scene after a bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded outside a Damascus hotel where U.N. observers are staying in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. Several people were wounded, Syria's state TV reported. TV said the explosion took place near a parking lot used by the army command, which is about 300 meters (yards) away. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
Syrian security investigate the scene after a bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded outside a Damascus hotel where U.N. observers are staying in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. Several people were wounded, Syria's state TV reported. TV said the explosion took place near a parking lot used by the army command, which is about 300 meters (yards) away. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
Syrian security investigate the scene Aug. 15, 2012, after a bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded outside a hotel in Damascus, Syria, where U.N. observers are staying. Several people were wounded, Syria's state TV reported. TV said the explosion took place near a parking lot used by the army command, which is about 300 meters (yards) away. (Associated Press)
Syrian security investigate the scene Aug. 15, 2012, after a bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded outside a hotel in Damascus, Syria, where U.N. observers are staying. Several people were wounded, Syria's state TV reported. TV said the explosion took place near a parking lot used by the army command, which is about 300 meters (yards) away. (Associated Press)
Army Capt. Stephanie Godman is silhouetted by a star-filled night sky after taking part in a night ambush exercise. Women have been allowed to go to the Army's sapper school since 1999. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
Capt. Godman sits with her weapon ready to move again as she and other trainees work to complete a mission at the Missouri training school for sappers. She was influenced in her choice of a military career by a cousin who had joined the Army and her brother, who had become a National Guardsman.
