200307-M-DG494-559 NORFOLK (March 7, 2020) Gen. David H. Berger, 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps, delivers remarks during the commissioning ceremony for the the Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base USS Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB 4). The ship commissioning ceremony continues a tradition three centuries old, observed by navies around the world and by our own Navy since December 1775, when �Alfred�, the first ship of the Continental Navy, was commissioned at Philadelphia. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Fernando Moreno/Released)