Vice President Kamala Harris was bound for Annapolis, Maryland where she made history once again on Friday as the first woman and First Female Vice President to deliver the keynote commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy, at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

Whilst delivering her 20 minutes keynote address, she told graduates the country faces a "significant turning point." She began by saying this, "Midshipmen, we are now entering the next era. A new age. A new epoch, with its own challenges, and with its own opportunities,"

She also spoke about how interconnected, interdependent and fragile the World is especially with how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone and shown the cracks in the World by saying this, "The global pandemic, you see, of course, has accelerated our world into a new era. If we weren't clear before, we know now: Our world is interconnected. Our world is interdependent. Our world is fragile."

She also addressed various challenges facing the nation and its service members, citing cybersecurity threats and climate change. Vice President Harris was then given her U.S. Naval Academy jacket at the graduation and commission ceremony 

She as the first Black woman to be elected vice president gave a shout out and honoured to a new midshipman. Midshipman Sydney Barber made history of her own by becoming the first Black woman in the school's almost 175-year history to serve as brigade commander, who oversaw roughly 4,000 students this year.

She previously spoke with Midshipman Sydney Barber in a video call where like in her Friday address she told the Midshipman Barber and the graduating Navy Officers, "My ceremonial office was once occupied by the Secretary of the Navy, and displayed there, I have placed the shoulder boards of your brigade commander, Midshipman Sydney Barber."

While speaking via video to the Vice President, Midshipman Barber spoke about the STEM program which she helped launch and coordinate with the Navy for the children living around the base and the surrounding Annapolis.

Before the commissioning, Vice President Harris stopped by the United States Naval Academy Cemetery to pay respects to her former colleague in the Senate "a great and courageous American" GOP Sen. John McCain.