Chelsea Manning (Credit: AP/U.S. Army) The U.S. military finally announced that it would grant Chelsea Manning gender reassignment surgery after a weeklong hunger strike, but not before the whistleblower is also punished for her attempted suicide attempt earlier this summer. Manning, who is serving a 35-year sentence at the US Army’s Fort Leavenworth prison in Kansas, was convicted on two of three additional charges in a disciplinary hearing Thursday.