CBS reporter Kimberly Dozier (left) arrived back in the U.S.

late yesterday to start the long road to recovery.

Dozier, who was severely injured in a Baghdad car-bomb attack last week, was flown aboard a military transport from a hospital in Germany to an Air Force base outside Washington.

Her family says that she will have rods permanently implanted in her damaged legs. Dozier, a former Ch. 2 reporter, will be treated at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

The bomb killed a cameraman, a soundman and a soldier.