The Navy will be naming a ship after Carl Brashear, the first African American to become a U.S. Navy Master Diver.
A new cargo ship will bear the name of the Navy's first black deep-sea diver.
Carl Brashear joined the Navy in 1948 when he was 17 years old. 1 of 6 children born to a sharecropper in Kentucky, he dreamed of becoming a Navy diver. No blacks were Navy divers at the time.
Brashear remained determined and made his way into the service, eventually retiring as a Master Chief Petty Officer in 1979.
He died at age 75 in 2006.
If you remember, Brashear was depicted by actor Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film "Men of Honor".
3 comments:
That was such a good movie!! He definitely deserves the honor!
jglez
"That was such a good movie!! He definitely deserves the honor!"
Right on both counts, jglez!
Great flick, but I want to see remake.
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