Billy Sunday Master Chief Carl Brashear

As a crew member of the salvage ship uss hoist where he is assigned to the galley he is inspired by the bravery of one of the divers master chief petty officer leslie william billy sunday. Carl maxie brashear january 19 1931 july 25 2006 was a highly decorated united states navy sailor. He is a composite of at least three different people carl met in the past.

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Like master chief billy sunday both snowhill and rourke are fictional.

Billy sunday master chief carl brashear. Brashear a son of kentucky sharecroppers who in 1970 became the united states navy s first black master diver and whose story was told in the 2000 movie men of honor died tuesday in. After missing a jump he is laying on the floor. Robert de niro adds marquee value and salty bluster as billy sunday the drunken redneck and fictionalized master chief who watches with gradual admiration as brashear attains his ultimate goal through sheer force of will. While swearing in walks billy sunday cookie.

The filmmakers created these guys to characterize the two sides of the racial battles the real carl brashear had to face. In the fall of 2000 the 60 million dollar movie men of honor was released about carls professional and private life. In the film s press notes. Because of this the scenes we see in the film with rourke antagonizing or berating carl are made up.

Image courtesy of the u s. Carl brashear is skipping rope. Carl brashear leaves his native kentucky and the life of a sharecropper in 1948 by joining the united states navy. Please note that billy sunday is a fictional person.

Navy master diver rising to the position in 1970 having an amputated left leg. He was a u s. Robert de niro is billy sunday. Carl maxie brashear is one of those individuals who demonstrated unyielding tenacity to overcome his circumstances only to achieve his ultimate goal of becoming a united states navy master diver.

Stars as carl brashear. No he was not a real person. According to the film s press kit the character of billy sunday who was a master chief navy diver and instructor at the diving school in the movie was a composite of various navy men. The film men of honor was based on his life.

Though de niro s character the boorish commander billy sunday is a composite of two specific naval instructors brashear had at the navy s new jersey diving school one a racist and the other. After missing a jump he is laying on the floor.