(Left to right: Bremerton Mayor Patty Lent, Lt. Commander Medlin, Willis A. Lent and Secretary Wyman) (Photo courtesy of Laura Mott)

Secretary Wyman was honored to be part of a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda to honor an officer on the USS Maine, a submarine stationed at Naval Base Kitsap, Bangor.

Lt. Commander Jeremy C. Medlin, a weapons officer on the Maine, received the Willis A. Lent Trophy Thursday. The award is named after Admiral Willis A. Lent, a submarine commanding officer during World War II. Lent was the first submarine commander to receive two Navy crosses.

Presenting the award was Bremerton Mayor Patty Lent, a distant cousin of Admiral Lent. Attending the ceremony was Admiral Lent’s son, Willis A. Lent. The annual award is given under the auspices of the Commander Submarine Force Pacific Fleet, the Lent family and the local Bremerton/Olympic Council of the Navy League.