Late Pentagon chief Ash Carter honored as ‘force of nature’


              President Joe Biden speaks during a memorial service for former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter at the National Cathedral, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
            
              President Joe Biden speaks during a memorial service for former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter at the National Cathedral, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
            
              President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken look towards the urn with the cremated remains of former Defense Secretary Ash Carter during a memorial service for Carter at the National Cathedral, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
            President Joe Biden, from left, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his wife Charlene Austin and Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, right, attend a memorial service for former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter at the National Cathedral, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) FILE - Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is interviewed in his Pentagon office, Jan. 18, 2017. President Joe Biden and other past and present U.S. officials are honoring Ash Carter, the late defense secretary who opened the way for women to fight in combat and transgendered personnel to serve, at a memorial service Thursday., Jan. 12, 2023. Carter, 68, died in October of a heart attack. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
Late Pentagon chief Ash Carter honored as ‘force of nature’