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Rep. Roger Williams knew when he saw his colleague Mia Love tossing strikes, snagging grounders and slapping singles, that his team needed her. She had talent.

So Williams of Texas recruited the Utah Republican to play for the GOP team against their Democratic counterparts in the Congressional Baseball Game.

Love, who already participates in the Congressional Women's Softball Game, will take the field next month as the only female Republican to play alongside the men in the charity game at Nationals Park in Washington.

Headquartered on Fort Hood — one of the largest military bases in the world — III Corps is a major formation of the United States Army Forces Command.

These brave soldiers are an asset to the great state of Texas, as well as to the nation, and I am privileged to represent them in the U.S. House of Representatives.

From their service in World War I to the Vietnam War, and now in the Global War on Terror, America has called upon the "Phantom Corps" to defend the red, white and blue for a century.

WASHINGTON, DC - Two area congressmen whose districts cover Fort Hood have returned from a trip to Kuwait and Iraq as part of a week long series of meetings with American servicemen and women along with U.S. officials and government leaders in the two countries.

Congressman Roger Williams and Congressman John Carter said the meetings were focused on gaining a better understanding of U.S. military operations in the Middle East and to learn how Congress can support the military and diplomatic efforts in the region.

The Mounted Warfare Foundation hosted the Homecoming for Heroes IV gala at the SC River Ranch in Oakalla Saturday evening, with several hundred in attendance.

OAKALLA — The National Mounted Warfare Foundation hosted its fourth annual Homecoming for Heroes event to benefit the National Mounted Warrior Museum project on Saturday at the SC River Ranch in Oakalla.

"(The museum) is going to honor the soldiers, their families, local civilians and the veterans and everyone who has had a role in the buildup of Fort Hood," said retired Lt. Gen. Paul E. Funk, the president and CEO of the Mounted Warfare Foundation.

Funk said the museum would serve as a destination activity for Central Texas.

Republican congressional baseball coach Roger Williams hit infield practice Wednesday morning as Rodney Davis played catcher and Williams staffer Zack Barth backed them up around a flooded batter's box.

ALEXANDRIA Va. — A year ago, a gunman shattered the tranquility of a spring baseball practice in this leafy Washington suburb, sending members of Congress diving into dugouts and leaving House Majority Whip Steve Scalise grasping for life on a blood-soaked infield.

On Wednesday, Republicans returned to the scene of the carnage to pay homage to the police officers who saved lives that day and — in a spirit of resilience — to once again play ball.

"I thought it was important to show the world we're not going to be deterred," said Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.).

They were back on the field Wednesday.

Less than a year after being shot at during their last baseball practice, the Republican Congressional Baseball team got back to work.

Wednesday was the first time since last year's tragic shooting — when an Illinois man who belonged to anti-Republican groups fired about 200 rounds at the team, pinning them for five or 10 minutes under gunfire — that the team returned to the Eugene Simpson Field for practice.