Master Chief Billy Sunday Navy

He eventually also earned the rank of master chief himself.

Master chief billy sunday navy. Navy diver with the rank of master chief petty officer. Navy master diver rising to the position in 1970 having an amputated left leg. The navy diver is not a fighting man he is a salvage expert. Although we don t know his name is leslie until much later most people just call him master chief billy sunday.

If it is lost underwater he finds it. Carl maxie brashear january 19 1931 july 25 2006 was a highly decorated united states navy sailor. He was a u s. The movie begins with robert deniro s character u s.

The film men of honor was based on his life. Senior chief petty officer e 9. This film is based on real life events of carl brashear the first black man to be accepted into the salvage divers school. 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.

Anyway in the film a badly beaten billy is being held by military police for going awol. He is determined to overcome racism and become the first black american navy diver even proclaiming that he will become a master diver. 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 a. 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 in the film s press notes screenwriter scott marshall smith wrote this isn t a connect the dots biography.

Navy master chief leslie william sunday. If it s sunk he brings it up. Master chief petty officer e 9 also can be a command master chief cmc of the master chief petty officer of the navy mcpon which is assigned to the highest ranking enlisted person in the united states navy.