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Later, the world would be introduced to him through a movie affected. His name was Carl Brashear, but I called Chief – Carl Brashear abbreviation for Master Chief USN Maxie you've never heard of him but there is a good chance you've seen the movie or television show about her life. His life inspired the movie "Men of Honor" and it stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as Chief Brashear. It also stars Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron and Hal Holbrook. But this article is not about the movie. You can verify this by you and I recommend you rent quickly.
This story is never give up. There are a lot of media talk about how 2008 will be difficult for businesses. And, you know what? If you think I can almost guarantee it will – for you. But if you focus on a target and tell you that you'll never, never give up then I can virtually guarantee that this is a good year – for you. Much of what happens in our lives has to do with how we think and what we value. Chief Brashear embodies the belief that you never give up. Here's a little history.
When he enlisted in early 1948, the Navy had just been broken and after basic training, he was assigned to the mess of an agent as a steward who served meals and polished shoes of officers. But he wanted something more in life and watching some divers working one day off an aircraft carrier, decided he would become a deep-sea diver. He asked the school but said there was "no color" Navy divers. He said they were about to get their first. In 1954, he became the first African American to attend and graduate U.S. Navy Diving & Salvage School. He later became a Master Diver and Master Chief Petty Officer, first in the Navy.
I met the head in a stressful circumstance. I was planning to be discharged from the Navy in November 1970 after serving just over three years. I was not supposed to be released a year later, but I was one of thousands who have qualified at the time early release. I was eager to begin my career as a photojournalist during the Civil blue, I had new orders. It seems that the recovery ARS-43 USS someone needs my game unique skills and rank (at least that's what my commander told me) and I was not released early. Instead, I will spend a year at sea and I would most likely go to the Mediterranean for six months. I was not happy.
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A few months after I had already reported the recovery, Chief Brashear was to get orders to report to the same boat to take on the role of Master Diver. It's funny how life works on the coincidence, but we do know the same boat would change my life. I would not assess the extent of years later.
Shortly after having settled on board, I started to learn to know the people that I would work with. One of them, a first-class diver by the name of George Caswell me updated on the Carl Brashear's life when we learned he would be the new Master Diver. He told me the story of how, in 1966, Chief Brashear had worked on the USS Hoist. They have been recovering from a nuclear bomb that was lost when two of our planes came into collision on the fuel near the Canary Islands. During the assembly of a broken line and a metal pipe stolen and blocked Chief Brashear left leg below the knee and around shaving. He spent the next two years in rehab the leg was amputated. But instead of being rejected or take a desk job, Chief Brashear was determined to be reinstated as a diver. April 1968 he became the first amputee to be certified as a marine rescue and rescue Deep Sea Diver. Two years later, he and I were to meet on recovery.
As I mentioned earlier, I was not particularly happy to have to serve another year But the sea, I made the best of him and quickly won the support of the operations officer to whom I reported and my commander. In fact, I was given permission to start a log that we were leaving for a six month cruise "Med. Put newspaper gave me a creative outlet and I really enjoyed since I had worked as a journalist and a photographer from a daily before enlisting. I typed on a manual typewriter using a two-ply master mind, then he fled on a ditto machine. The first few numbers were mostly on the ports we were visiting with some news of current events thrown in. But, It was not long before I decided to start writing opinion articles. We were somewhere off the coast of Italy when I wrote my opinion about the Vietnam War, President Nixon and the Uniform Code of Military Justice in a single question.
What the newspapers will, he managed to cause a heck of a lot of rage. My agent told me that the operations actually caused an altercation at dinner this evening in the officers' mess. The men aboard career (which includes Chief Brashear) were not happy with my opinions and many have shared their opinions of me with me. The next day, Captain finally explain that the U.S. Navy Master, I had no right to freedom to express my opinions about whether our commander Chief or the Uniform Code of Military Justice. I think that is my statement that "military justice is an oxymoron" which has the most wind. It was the end of the ship paper.
That evening, after the word canceled, the newspaper came out, I watch in the Information Center combat (my office) when I received a blow on my locked door. Looking through the peephole, I saw he was Chief Brashear. It had never visited before, so I was pretty much expected it had something to say about the newspaper. But he did not mention. He just that he was on deck and thought he had stopped to chat. He then asked if I would like to join him in the locker of the master crew (his office) after I'm off to "work" with him. He had a look in his eyes that tells me I am out of my mind to accept invitation. Apparently he was not amused by my opinions. I told him that I do not think I would join him and he said ok and that it was the end of the discussion. For the next few weeks, I stayed away from him, except when we had to work together and he ignored me, except for give me a look from time to time. Call relax. But something happened that changed everything.
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The ship was short of its quota of flight attendants and the result was the officers had to stand 12 hours 12 hours rest and watch as agent under the deck (UOOD). The UOOD is the person who gives orders on the bridge when the ship is underway. He is responsible give orders navigation, avoiding running into anything, and ensuring the safety of the ship and its sailors. One day, the officer operations has been complaining about the watches, when he said casually: "You should be standing UOOD watches since you teach us all way. "It is true that part of my job was teaching new agents some of the things they had to know to qualify as a UOOD. I said I'd be happy to do that if the Navy decides never to leave a commitment to execute anyone under the ship. I do not think most subject.
Now it happened that the operations officer was a kind of tenacious researcher. He checked all the regulations and found there was no one who said you had to be made an officer to qualify as an officer under the bridge. There was only pass a written test and be certified by the master. Somehow, he talked the captain into allowing me to test. I past and the next thing I knew the captain had properly certified UOOD and I was put on the rotation shows. In those days if we were not beyond rescue or recovery, we spent time in general running drills and shadowing Russian trawler ships 'spy' which made things interesting watches UOOD.
I was one of my first hits (he could have been the first) when the Chief Brashear came to the bridge. We went through the ritual of the formal evolution UOOD, involved saying that "it is master of Poole and I Bridge and Connecticut "I remember Chief Brashear, who appeared on the face of disbelief. He had never seen a trooper be given the bridge or in Conn. It was unthinkable at the time.
The next day, I found the head, once again, visiting my office to chat. He wanted to know how he came to this I was a watch UOOD. And he wanted to know how he could do the same thing. I told him how there was no regulation that says he could and could not take the same test as long as I took the captain was well her. I told him that I help with things he needed to know he was not already familiar with and a few weeks later Master Chief Brashear was certified as an agent under the bridge.
From there we started talking about our lives and our future as one of us had a night guard and things have been quiet on the bridge. I told him how I keep in photojournalism or perhaps even photography studio. He told me his life from his birth in Kentucky, the son of sharecroppers. He never complained about the prejudice he faced to become a diver. He never regretted the loss of his leg. Instead, he talked to never give up your dreams and wanting to experience as much as in life. I learned that when he wanted to go to school First Class Diver, he could not pass the first time because of the mathematical physics and chemistry necessary. He had begun with only a primary education. He enrolled at the Institute of Military and worked for three years to master the necessary scientific expertise. He earned his GED and went back to the school's First Class Diver where he earned his third class.
It get excited when I talk about my future and he encouraged me to do anything and What I wanted in life. He was one of the toughest men I have ever known. But it was harder on himself than anyone. He did not mean "you can not do it" and pushed himself to resist mental, emotional and physical pain that would break most anyone else because he could not accept giving up. He has taught me not to let someone else take your dreams.
Master Chief Brashear died of respiratory and heart failure in 2006. How a man with a heart as big as his can die from Heart failure is a mystery of nature. His son, Phillip Brashear said at his funeral that, even in dying, his father was not willing to let go of a life built on determination. "Even though his lungs failed him, his heart was still beating." Carl Brashear showed us all a human being is able to do when he is facing overwhelming odds. Think about this when you are thinking about how 2008 will be one year "difficult" for businesses. Go rent the movie, "men of honor." You may find yourself saying, "Never Give Up. "
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