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#MenOfHonor (2000)
Carl Brashear is an ambitious sharecropper who joins the U.S. Navy to become the world's first black master diver. But as he works through diving training, the racist Master Chief sets out to make Carl's journey as difficult as possible.
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#MenOfHonor (2000)
Master Chief Leslie “Billy” Sunday
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Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story. Their relationship starts out on the rocks, but fate ultimately conspires to bring the men together into a setting of mutual respect, triumph and honor.
The movie #MenOfHonor was released 23 years ago
(10.11.2000)
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''The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. If it is lost underwater, he finds it....''
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#MenOfHonor (2000)
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The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.
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