Happy Black History Month
Let’s meet Carl Brashear – January 19, 1931 – July 25, 2006
IF you have seen the movie – MEN OF HONOR (with Cuba Gooding Jr)- it was based on his life.
Excellent movie – highly recommended.
Brashear enlisted in the US Navy in February of 1948 not long after President Harry Truman had desegregated the military. He graduated from US Navy Diving and Salvage School in 1954 becoming the first African American to attend and graduate from the school. Even though the navy was desegregated he still faced hostility and racism from the other divers/students in the school.
Brashear became a Navy diver in 1949 – but in March of 1966 a salvage operation accident resulted in his left leg being amputated. Two years after this he was re-certified as a diver and in 1970 and he became the US Navy’s first African American Master Diver.
He retired from the US Navy in April of 1979 as a master chief petty officer and a master diver.
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ITS NOT A SIN TO GET KNOCKED DOWN. ITS A SIN TO STAY DOWN. – Carl Brashear
To learn more about Carl Brashear and his life check out this website: https://carlbrashear.org/
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*I choose ADVENTURE*
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