Military

The Navy has sent the San Diego-based destroyers USS Stockdale and USS William P. Lawrence, and the cruiser USS Princeton, to the Red Sea as the situation in Syria heats up.

The exhibit features work by combat veterans who were taught how to turn their anxiety over war into a reflective, therapeutic experience to help them transition back into civilian life.

Labor Day is usually a bonanza for tennis fans, with the U.S. Open showcasing the sport's greatest players in a full day of action. Unfortunately this year, Mother Nature hasn't been playing along, and most of the games have been rain delayed. But such hurdles are water off a duck's back for Navy Corpsman Angelo Anderson, one of the tournament's ballpersons, and the survivor of once-incapacitating injuries suffered in Afghanistan.

Militants attacked a U.S. base in Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan on Monday, setting off bombs, torching vehicles and shutting down a key road used by NATO supply trucks, officials said. At least three people - apparently all attacking insurgents - were killed.

In two reports published Aug. 30, the U.S. Navy acknowledged that bomb testing and sonar use over the next five years will likely kill hundreds of marine mammals and seriously injure thousands more.

Army Staff Sgt. Michael H. Ollis, 24, died August 28, in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. The young soldier was killed when insurgents attacked his unit with what the Department of Defense reports as "an improvised explosive device, small arms and indirect fire."

Army Sgt. 1st Class Ricardo D. Young, 34, died August 28 in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Young was killed when insurgents attacked his unit with gunfire.

The commanding officer of the hospital ship USNS Comfort, Capt. Kevin J. Knoop, was relieved of his duties this week. The commander of Military Sealift Command, Rear Adm. Thomas K. Shannon, sacked Knoop because of a "loss of confidence in (his) ability to command."

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Jason Togi, 24, of American Samoa, was killed August 26 in Afghanistan when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with a homemade bomb.

The F-16C crash that killed pilot Capt. James Michael Steel on April 3, 2013 in Afghanistan was caused by his failure to "perceive mountainous terrain in his flight path," according to a new report by the U.S. Air Force.