Untold Tale Behind USS Guardian Reef Grounding: NGA’s Map Was Wrong By 8 Miles

Untold Tale Behind USS Guardian Reef Grounding: NGA’s Map Was Wrong By 8 Miles
Untold Tale Behind USS Guardian Reef Grounding: NGA’s Map Was Wrong By 8 Miles

WASHINGTON: The January grounding of the minesweeper USS Guardian in a Philippine coral reef was caused in large part by a National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) map that was, quite simply, wrong by eight nautical miles, Breaking Defense has learned. “It really was just a terrible fluke that caused the error,” NGA spokeswoman Christine Phillips said…