JOINT EXPEDITIONARY BASE LITTLE CREEK-FORT STORY, Va. -- "A son never forgets." You may recall this line from the movie "Men of Honor," based on the true story of the late Master Chief Boatswain's ...

Knowing when, and where, Carl Brashear grew up might make you pause when you learn he became the first Black master diver in the U.S. Navy. But Brashear never let adversity stand in his way. Born in ...

Brashear died at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth of respiratory and heart failure, the medical center said. Brashear retired from the Navy in 1979 after more than 30 years of service. He was the ...

Potent acting enlivens this true story of a black Navy diver fighting 1950s racism President Clinton led the standing ovation at the White House for this true story of Carl Brashear, a sharecropper’s ...

“In the words of my father, it is not a sin to get knocked down. It is a sin to stay down,” said Phillip Brashear, son of the late Master Chief Carl Brashear, the Navy’s first Black deep sea diver.

Phillip Brashear stood in front of over 100 flight students and spectators on Thursday at the National Naval Aviation Museum to tell them how with hard work, dedication and faith they can achieve ...

Oris‘ third bronze watch paying tribute to US Navy Master diver Carl Brashear is the first to use a variation of the brand’s new in-house automatic movement, Calibre 400. The watchmaker from Holstein ...

Carl M. Brashear, the first black U.S. Navy diver, who was portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the 2000 film "Men of Honor," died Tuesday. He was 75. Brashear, a native of Sonora, Ky., died at the Naval ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The son of the Navy's first Black master diver spoke is speaking about his father's legacy. Phillip Brashear addressed the crew of USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) on Tuesday morning about his ...

In the 1950s. Carl Brashear (Cuba Godding, Jr.) joins the Navy in an effort to better himself, and escape the poverty-stricken farming life in which he grew-up. Promising his father to excel, Brashear ...