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Sgt. Tawan Williamson uses crutches following physical therapy at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Tuesday, May 8, 2007. Williamson's left leg was shredded in Iraq when a bomb blew up under his Humvee in June 2006. 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 Photo/Eric Gay)

Associated AP article: Amputee soldiers return to active duty.

(Assuming this is voluntary, and the soldiers are carefully assessed both physically and mentally, I say go for it.

Allowing these soldiers to maintain a sense of purpose, worth, and belonging can only help their recovery. )