WESTFIELD — A crowd gathered in the rain on Thursday to honor and remember Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers, formerly of Westfield.
Chambers was killed in action in January during a nighttime mission off the coast of Somalia. While his Navy SEAL team was seizing a vessel illegally transporting advanced weapons from Iran to Houthi rebels in Yemen, Chambers fell into the water between the Navy ship and the rebel ship. Neither he nor a fellow Navy SEAL who dived in to rescue him, Nathan Gage Ingram, resurfaced.