Master Chief Leslie Sunday
No he was not a real person.
Master chief leslie sunday. I had my first movie contract in 1980 recalls the suave soft spoken brashear 69 who retired in 1979 as a master chief petty officer after more than 30 years of service. This film is based on real life events of carl brashear the first black man to be accepted into the salvage divers school. Master chief is a master chief in the unsc a fictional branch of the military and is the highest enlisted rank attainable. Login to reply the answers post.
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 movie begins with robert deniro s character u s. He finds that master chief sunday is the leading chief petty officer and head instructor who is under orders from the school s eccentric bigoted commanding officer to ensure that brashear fails. Although we don t know his name is leslie until much later most people just call him master chief billy sunday.
The movie itself was based upon master chief master diver carl bashear. Truman had the courage and forward thinking and enlightenment to desegregate the united states military. Anyway in the film a badly beaten billy is being held by military police for going awol. Brashear struggles to overcome his educational shortcomings a result of his leaving school in grade 7 in order to work on his family s failing farm.
In the film s press notes. He was the first african american diver and the first african american master diver. Navy master chief leslie william sunday. There was a preacher by the same name who cleaned up chicago of all the whoring spics drunken wops and motherfucking niggers that was making that place unfit for decent white folks to live.
My name is master chief billy sunday. Navy diver with the rank of master chief petty officer. My name is master chief billy sunday. He eventually also earned the rank of master chief himself.
There was a preacher by the same name who cleaned up chicago of all the whoring spics drunken wops and motherf ing n ggers that was making that place unfit for decent white folks to live. He joined the navy in 1948 and retired in 1979.