Memorial Service for Petty Officer Joseph Allen Ashley

Following up on previous posts (see here, here, here, and here), the Stars and Stripes reports from Guam:

About 500 people attended a memorial service Thursday for Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph Allen Ashley, who died from injuries suffered when the submarine USS San Francisco ran aground Jan. 8.

Those attending the service, held in the chapel on U.S. Naval Base Guam, included fellow crewmembers, other members of Submarine Squadron 15 and their families.

"It was standing-room only," said Lt. Commander Jeff Davis, spokesman for Pacific Submarine Force.

Cmdr. Kevin Mooney, commanding officer of the USS San Francisco, and Rear Adm. David Gove, commander of Submarine Group 7, paid tribute to Ashley during the ceremony.

Rest in peace, Petty Officer Ashley.

By no means does the memorial service close the book on the submarine accident. The Pentagon and the Navy still need to take corrective action regarding the inaccurate navigation charts. In my opinion, there should be a dramatic shakeup in the personnel and procedures controlling documents in the Defense Department.