A U.S. airstrike killed 12 Afghan National Police officers mistaken for Taliban fighters in Helmand province. Pentagon officials confirmed the errant airstrike, which happened Friday, and offered condolences to the officers’ families. Two other officers suffered injuries. Afghan forces are fighting to retake areas of Helmand now under Taliban control. A government official said the police officers, working with army soldiers, had just regained control of a Taliban post when the air strike happened.

A military court in Jordan has sentenced a Jordanian soldier to life in prison with hard labor for killing three U.S. military trainers at a Jordanian air base. Gunfire killed the three U.S. Army green berets on Nov. 4 as their convoy waited at the base gate. The soldier pleaded “not guilty” to the charges, claiming he opened fire out of fear the base was under attack. The U.S. Embassy in a Monday statement said the trial verified the U.S. military trainers had “followed all established procedures when accessing the base the day of the incident, as we have noted before.”

Family members have identified some of the 15 Marines and a Navy sailor who died in a Monday plane crash in Mississippi. Brig. Gen. Bradley James in a statement said the family members of those killed had been notified, and the roster of their names will be released in coming days. Some of the family members released statements, spoke to local media, and posted remembrances on social media. One of the identified officers is 26-year-old Joseph Murray. Murray’s father told reporters his Florida-born son had shared his Christian faith by serving his country.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is warning people not to pick up debris spread up to 5 miles around the site of a Marine Corps plane that crashed Monday in a rural soybean field. Officials say it could take as long as a week to collect all the debris. The cause of the cargo plane crash, which killed 15 Marines and one Navy corpsman, remains under investigation.

A U.S. military plane crashed in rural Mississippi on Monday evening, killing at least 16 people, officials said. The KC-130 aircraft, which set off from the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, N.C., spiraled into a field some 85 miles north of Jackson in the Mississippi Delta. At a press briefing, Emergency Management Agency Director Frank Randle said authorities recovered 16 bodies from the crash site. Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Sarah Burns said in a statement the aircraft “experienced a mishap” but provided no details on what might have caused the crash.

Military leaders will ask Defense Secretary Jim Mattis for a six-month delay in deploying new rules for allowing transgender Americans to join the service. The Army and Air Force reportedly wanted a two-year wait, but the chiefs feared that request would generate too much opposition on Capitol Hill. Transgender service members can already serve openly in the military, but the Obama administration gave leaders until July 1 to develop policies for recruiting, housing, and uniforms for transgender troops.

The U.S. Navy’s 7th fleet has identified the seven sailors from the USS Fitzgerald who died when their destroyer collided with a Philippine-flagged container ship off the coast of Japan early Saturday. Navy divers recovered the bodies from flooded berths after the damaged destroyer limped back to port in Yokosuka, Japan.