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Proceedings. Master Chief Boatswain’s Mate Carl M. Brashear was raised on a sharecropping farm in Kentucky, enlisted in the Navy in 1948, and pushed past racism and discrimination to become the U.S. Navy’s first African-American diver and then master diver. His career was shaped by skill, determination, and courage.
At a Crossroads. In 1960, Carl Brashear earned his G.E.D., made chief, and started training to become a first class diver — three essential steps toward his goal to make master diver. Almost overnight, one misstep threatened to derail his plans. He failed out of the extremely difficult first class course shortly after arriving at Deep Sea ...
Feb 13, 2023 · The subject of the movie Men of Honor, Carl Brashear battled racism to become the U.S. Navy's first Black master diver — even after losing one of his legs. Disaster struck on March 23, 1966. Two Air Force planes collided off the coast of Spain, dropping a hydrogen bomb into the ocean. As a Navy recovery team hauled the nuclear bomb up from ...
Carl Brashear, Master Diver. During the next nine years, Carl Brashear lived his dream of being a master diver through a series of disparate diving assignments. He dove on submarines for the first time as the master diver and R-7 division officer on USS Hunley, a submarine tender. Submarines required near-constant diving, but Brashear found ...
Carl Brashear’s Navy and Marine Corps Medal citation. The medal is the highest peacetime award for heroism, and recognizes “personal life-threatening risk” to the recipient. Brashear was serving on USS Hoist when he was injured.
Mar 8, 2020 · Carl Maxie Brashear was a United States Navy sailor and master diver. Brashear was born on January 19, 1931, to McDonald Brashear and Gonzella Brashear in Tonieville, Kentucky. Brashear’s family later relocated to a farm in Sonara, Kentucky, where he attended the local grade school but dropped out in the seventh grade to help on the family farm.
Carl Maxie Brashear ( Toinville, 19 de janeiro de 1931 – Portsmouth, 25 de julho de 2006) foi o primeiro mergulhador -mestre americano negro da Marinha dos Estados Unidos, feito conseguido em 1970. [ 1] Em 2000, a história de Brashear foi retratada no filme Homens de Honra ( Men of Honor ), interpretado por Cuba Gooding, Jr .
