Gallery: Warner joins the fleet

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  • ormer U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Navy John Warner stands in front of the new fast attack submarine named for him. The boat was commissioned August 1 in Norfolk. Warner served as a five terms — 30 years — as a Virginia senator from 1979 through 2006 after having served as Secretary of the Navy from May 4, 1972 to April 8, 1974. He also served as a sailor in World War II and as a Marine pilot in the Korean war. Photo by Mark D. Faram Times Staff.
  • Norfolk Naval Station (Aug. 1, 2015) Former Senator and Secretary of the Navy John Warner John Warner talks to the assembled guests at the commissioning of the fast attack submarine John Warner, named in his honor as it was commissioned Aug. 1 at Norfolk Naval Station. Photo by Mark D. Faram Times staff
  • Naval Station Norfolk (Aug. 1, 2015) Signal flags deck out the guided missile destroyer Nitze in honor of the commissioning of the fast-attack submarine John Warner during the Warner’s commissioning on the other side of the pier in Naval Station, Norfolk. Photo by Mark D. Faram Times staff
  • Naval Station Norfolk (Aug. 1, 2015) Former sailor and second class machinery repairman Byron Lewis from Clark Fork Idaho, takes in the sight of the Navy’s newest fast attack submarine te John Warner Lewis last saw Norfolk in 1955 when he left the Navy after five years working on diesel attack boats while stationed onboard the submarine tender Orion, then homeported in Norfolk. He and his wife Myra were and brought by their son-in-law George King an engineer who works in Idaho for the Navy. Photo by Mark D. Faram Times staff
  • Norfolk Naval Station (Aug. 1, 2015) Wiht the reflecton of the soon to be commissioned fast attack submarine John Warner in this instrument, Musician 2nd Class (SW)David Teague of the Fleet Forces Band warms u before the ceremony Photo by Mark D. Faram Times staff
  • Norfolk Naval Station (Aug. 1, 2015) The crew of the fast attack submarine John Warner man the rails of their submarine only moments after the ship was placed in commission Aug. 1 at Norfolk Naval Station. Photo by Mark D. Faram Times staff
  • Naval Station Norfolk (Aug. 1, 2015) the crew of the Navy’s newest fast attack submarine, John Warner mann the rails of their boat just moments after the ship was placed in commission. Photo by Mark D. Faram Times staff