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Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) 1st Class Jason Workman, 32, was honored in a memorial service at the Blanding Stake Center in Blanding, Utah Aug. 20.

Workman was one of 30 U.S. service members killed when a coalition CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed in Afghanistan on, Aug. 6.

Saturday afternoon more than 300 family, friends, teammates and neighbors gathered to celebrate the life and mourn the loss of their beloved husband, son, brother, and friend.

Guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG 57), assigned to Combined Maritime Forces' Combined Task Force (CTF) 150, provided assistance to a vessel in distress Aug. 13.

While conducting maritime security operations in the Gulf of Aden, Mitscher queried the Sri Lankan-flagged cargo vessel Al Habib at 4:45 p.m. (local time).

The Al Habib crew relayed to Mitscher that they were experiencing engineering problems and running low on water.

During the Vibrant Response 12 exercise, conducted by U.S. Army North, service members and local first responders participated in a subway rescue scenario Aug. 17 for the first time here.

With the memory of subway terror attacks in the Paris, Tokyo, Madrid, London, Moscow, and the foiled New York City subway attack, Army North exercise planners added the scenario to use an actual subway simulation training facility recently installed at the training complex.

The U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center launched its Eagle Flag Exercise Aug. 13, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.

The first week of the two-week exercise is designed to simulate unloading and the transportation of cargo received in a deployed environment.

A joint task force-port opening, or JTF-PO, at the Lakehurst airfield is conducted by members of the 108th Contingency Response Group, from Joint Base MDL, and the 688th Rapid Port Opening Element, from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va.

Military units train to effectively execute missions in the future. For a North Carolina Army National Guard LUH-72 Lakota helicopter crew, they had the opportunity to both train and execute a real-world mission in the same day when they lifted a teenage boy to safety after he took an estimated 50-foot fall onto some trees below a ledge in a wooded area here Tuesday.

Active-duty and reserve-component Soldiers, as well as veterans, who were denied Purple Heart awards for concussive or mild traumatic brain injuries, are encouraged to resubmit documentation for reconsideration of the medal.

Since the Vietnam War, concussions or mild traumatic brain injuries, or MTBIs, as a direct result of an enemy action has always been an injury that warranted the award of the Purple Heart -- according to Defense Department guidelines. Nevertheless, field commanders have sometimes been unclear on what constituted concussion.

The Continuing Promise 2011 (CP11) mission team, embarked aboard USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), will suspend operations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 21, in anticipation of severe weather heading toward the area.

Tropical storm Irene is expected to make landfall in the vicinity of Hispaniola between Aug. 22-23.

Comfort and its crew have been directed by Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command to depart the area and seek safe haven until the tropical storm has passed. Comfort will remain in the area while damage assessments are conducted.

Billows of smoke rise from the rolling hills as the loud boom of cannons thunder throughout the empty golden wasteland of the Yakima Training Center. With the hot sun beating on their backs the Gunslingers are spending their days perfecting their aim at a field training exercise during the middle of August.