We were invited to attend the Change of Command Ceremony for the USS Truxtun, a destroyer ship of which our neighbor is now the Commanding Officer.  The ship deploys tomorrow for seven months.  We watched the ceremony surrounded by the ships officers and crew at attention with accompaniment of a naval band on the flight deck (luckily in a heated tent as it is January). Then we were welcomed to the Wardroom for a reception.  The previous captain and Troy used a large ceremony sword to cut the cake together.  There was a lot of interesting things that were done in the ceremony and after, that we had never seen or known about.  We got a coin also.  It was an honor to attend.