Members of the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River chapters of the National Naval Officers’ Association take a moment to pose in front the ship after the commissioning ceremony of the Navy destroyer, USS Gravely, at the State Ports, Wilmington, N.C., Nov. 20. The destroyer was named after the late pioneer Vice Adm. Samuel Lee Gravely Jr., who was the first African-American in the U.S. Navy to be commissioned, first to serve aboard a fighting ship as an officer, the first to command a Navy ship, become a fleet commander and a flag officer. - Members of the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River chapters of the National Naval Officers’ Association take a moment to pose in front the ship after the commissioning ceremony of the Navy destroyer, USS Gravely, at the State Ports, Wilmington, N.C., Nov. 20. The destroyer was named after the late pioneer Vice Adm. Samuel Lee Gravely Jr., who was the first African-American in the U.S. Navy to be commissioned, first to serve aboard a fighting ship as an officer, the first to command a Navy ship, become a fleet commander and a flag officer.