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{{short description|One of the first African Americans to become a U.S. Navy Master Diver}}
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{{Infobox military person
| name = Carl Brashear
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| caption = Brashear as a Master Chief Petty Officer, {{circa|1970s}}
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| birth_name = Carl Maxie Brashear
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1931|1|19}}
| birth_place = [[Tonieville, Kentucky]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2006|7|25|1931|1|19}}
| death_place = [[Portsmouth, Virginia]], U.S.
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| allegiance = United States
| branch = [[United States Navy]]
| serviceyears = 1948–1979
| rank = [[Master Chief Petty Officer]]
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| battles = [[Korean War]]
| awards = [[Navy and Marine Corps Medal]] [[Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal]] [[Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal]]
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'''Carl Maxie Brashear''' (19 January 1931 – 25 July 2006) was an American sailor who served in the [[United States Navy]] as a [[Master diver (United States Navy)|Master Diver]]. He was among the first African-Americans to obtain that qualification, doing so in 1970 despite the amputation of his lower left leg in 1966. The 2000 film ''[[Men of Honor]]'' was based on his life.

==Early life and education==
Brashear was born on 19 January 1931, in [[Tonieville, Kentucky|Tonieville]], [[LaRue County, Kentucky]], the sixth of 16 children to [[Sharecropping|sharecroppers]] McDonald and Gonzella Brashear.<ref name="deatharticle">{{cite news |author= Dorsey, Jack|author2=Washington, Jim |url = http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=108110&ran=175615 |access-date = 26 July 2006|title = Pioneering Navy diver Carl Brashear dies in Portsmouth |work = The Virginian-Pilot |page=A1|date = 26 July 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102215001/http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=108110&ran=175615|archive-date=2 November 2007}}</ref><ref name=USNprofile>U.S. Navy profile, NHC, 2001.</ref> In 1935, the family settled on a farm in [[Sonora, Kentucky]]. Brashear attended Sonora Grade School from 1937 to 1946.

==Career==
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Brashear enlisted in the [[United States Navy]] on 25 February 1948, four months before the military was [[Desegregation in the United States|desegregated]] by President [[Harry S. Truman]].<ref name="nyt">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/us/27brashear.html |title=Carl M. Brashear, 75, Diver Who Broke a Racial Barrier, Dies |last=Fox |first=Margalit |date=2006-07-27 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2021-05-18 |quote=At 17, he tried to join the Army in early 1948, but the Army did not want him. The Navy was more welcoming, and he enlisted in February 1948. (The military would be officially desegregated in June of that year.)}}</ref> He graduated from the United States Navy Diving & Salvage School in 1954, becoming the first [[African-American]] to attend and graduate from the Diving & Salvage School and one of the first African-American [[United States Navy Diver]]s.<ref name="deatharticle"/>

While attending diving school in [[Bayonne, New Jersey]], Brashear faced hostility and racism. He found notes on his bunk saying, "We're going to drown you today, nigger!" and "We don't want any nigger divers." Brashear received encouragement to finish from [[Boatswain's mate (United States Navy)|Boatswain's Mate]] [[Petty Officer First Class|First Class]] Harry M. Rutherford, and graduated 16 out of 17.

Brashear first worked as a diver retrieving approximately 16,000 rounds of ammunition that fell off a barge which had broken in half and sunk. On his first tour of shore duty in [[Quonset Point, Rhode Island]], his duties included the salvaging of airplanes (including one [[Blue Angels|Blue Angel]]) and recovering multiple dead bodies from the sea.

Brashear was assigned to escort the presidential yacht the ''[[List of official vehicles of the president of the United States#Yachts|Barbara Anne]]'' to Rhode Island. He met President Eisenhower and received a small knife that said, "To Carl M. Brashear. From Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957. Many, many thanks." After making Chief Petty Officer in 1959, he stayed at Guam for three years doing mostly demolition dives.

===Leg amputation and recovery===
[[File:Brashear Gooding.jpg|thumb|right|Brashear (center) received an Outstanding Public Service Award in October 2000 from actor [[Cuba Gooding Jr.]] and then-[[United States Secretary of Defense|Defense Secretary]] [[William Cohen]] for 42 years of combined military and federal civilian service. Gooding portrayed Brashear in the 2000 film ''[[Men of Honor]]'']]
In January 1966, in an accident now known as the [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash|Palomares incident]], a [[B28 nuclear bomb]] was lost off the coast of [[Palomares, Almería|Palomares]], [[Spain]], after two [[United States Air Force]] aircraft of the [[Strategic Air Command]] (SAC), a [[B-52 Stratofortress|B-52G Stratofortress]] bomber and a [[KC-135 Stratotanker|KC-135A Stratotanker]] aerial refueling aircraft, collided during [[aerial refueling]]. Brashear was serving aboard {{USS|Hoist|ARS-40}} when it was dispatched to find and recover the missing bomb for the Air Force. The warhead was found after two and a half months of searching.<ref name="Oral history">{{cite web|url=http://www.usni.org/oralhistory/B/brashear_excerpt.htm |title=Oral History of Master Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl M. Brashear, USN (Ret.) |publisher=[[United States Naval Institute]] |date=17 November 1989 |access-date=30 July 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060414181810/http://www.usni.org/oralhistory/B/brashear_excerpt.htm |archive-date=14 April 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> For his service in helping to retrieve the bomb, Brashear was later awarded the [[Navy and Marine Corps Medal]], the highest navy award for non-combat heroism.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://projects.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/search.php?medal=19&service=&conflict=&term=&page=21 |title=Search for those who received the Medal of Honor |access-date=14 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616080133/http://projects.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/search.php?medal=19&service=&conflict=&term=&page=21 |archive-date=16 June 2013 }}</ref>

During the bomb recovery operations on 23 March 1966, a lifting cable snapped, causing a pipe to swing across the deck of the USS ''Hoist''. Brashear darted to push a shipmate out of the object's path. It consequently struck Brashear's left leg below the knee, nearly shearing it off. The impact flipped him in the air, almost casting him overboard before he landed on the deck.<ref>Jessica Brodkin Webb. "Beating the Odds: How Navy Diver Carl Brashear Changed History," Fleet Reserve Association Magazine, February 2023, 16-22.</ref><ref>Reel Faces.</ref> He was evacuated to [[Torrejon Air Base]] in Spain, then to the [[USAF]] Hospital at [[Wiesbaden Army Airfield|Wiesbaden Air Base]], Germany; and finally to the Naval Hospital in [[Portsmouth, Virginia]]. Beset with persistent infection and [[necrosis]], his lower left leg was eventually amputated.

Brashear remained at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Portsmouth from May 1966 until March 1967 recovering and rehabilitating from the amputation. From March 1967 to March 1968, Brashear was assigned to the Harbor Clearance Unit Two, Diving School, preparing for return to full active duty and diving.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq105-1.htm|title= Transcript of Service|work= [[Naval Historical Center]]|publisher= [[United States Department of the Navy]]|access-date= 30 July 2006|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060805081505/http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq105-1.htm|archive-date= 5 August 2006}}</ref> In April 1968, after a long struggle, Brashear was the first amputee diver to be recertified as a United States Navy diver.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,106968,00.html|title=First Black Navy Diver Dies|publisher=[[Military.com]]|date=26 July 2006}}</ref> In 1970, he became possibly the first African-American [[Master Diver (United States Navy)|master diver]], (debated between him and [[John Henry Turpin]]) and served nine more years beyond that, achieving the rating of master chief boatswain's mate in 1971.<ref name="deatharticle"/><ref name="funeralarticle">{{cite news |first = Dave |last = Forster |url = http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=108380&ran=217257 |title = Navy pioneer's life, career led by determination |work = The Virginian-Pilot |pages = A1, A10 |date = 30 July 2006 |access-date = 30 July 2006 }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Brashear was motivated by his beliefs that "It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down" and "I ain't going to let nobody steal my dream."

===Retirement===
Brashear retired from the United States Navy on 1 April 1979, as a [[Master Chief Petty Officer]] (E-9) and master diver. He then served as a civilian employee for the government at [[Naval Station Norfolk]], [[Norfolk, Virginia]], and retired in 1993 with the grade of [[General Schedule#Military rank equivalency|GS-11]].<ref name="deatharticle"/>

==Personal life==
Brashear married and divorced three times:<ref name=USNprofile/> Junetta Wilcoxson (1952–1978), Hattie R. Elam (1980–1983), and Jeanette A. Brundage (1985–1987). He had four children: Shazanta (1955–1996), DaWayne, Phillip, and Patrick.<ref name="deatharticle"/> Brashear's grand-nephew is a retired professional ice hockey player [[Donald Brashear]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/01/AR2009050104147_5.html?sid=ST2009050104383|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|title=For Capitals' Brashear, Fighting's a Way of Life|date=2 May 2009|access-date=5 May 2009|first=Mike|last=Wise}}</ref>

Brashear died of respiratory and heart failure at the [[Naval Medical Center Portsmouth]], [[Portsmouth, Virginia]], on 25 July 2006.<ref name="deatharticle"/> He is buried at [[Woodlawn Memorial Gardens]] in [[Norfolk, Virginia]].

After his death, his sons DaWayne and Phillip Brashear started the Carl Brashear Foundation in his honor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://carlbrashear.org/about-us/|title = About Us | A Tribute to Carl Brashear}}</ref>

==Decorations and awards==
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| colspan="3"|[[File:MDV Pin.jpg|160px]]
|-
| colspan="3"|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Navy and Marine Corps Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}} {{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Ribbon, U.S. Navy Presidential Unit Citation.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=U.S. Navy Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=US DoD Outstanding Public Service Award BAR.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=U.S. Navy Good Conduct Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}}[[File:Bronze-service-star-3d-vector.svg|18px]][[File:Silver-service-star-3d.svg|18px]][[File:Bronze-service-star-3d-vector.svg|18px]]
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=China Service Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=Army of Occupation ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=National Defense Service Medal ribbon, 2nd award.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=Korean_Service_Medal_-_Ribbon.svg|width=106}}[[File:Bronze-service-star-3d-vector.svg|18px]][[File:Bronze-service-star-3d-vector.svg|18px]]
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=United Nations Service Medal Korea ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Korean War Service Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|-
| colspan="3"|[[File:Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist Insignia.png|190px]]
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto; text-align:center;"
|-
|colspan="6"|[[Master diver (United States Navy)|Navy Master Diver]] Badge
|-
| scope="row" colspan="3" align="center"| [[Navy and Marine Corps Medal]]
| colspan="3"|[[Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal]]
|-
| scope="row" colspan="2" align="center"| [[Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal]]
| colspan="2"| [[Navy and Marine Corps Presidential Unit Citation]]
| colspan="2"| [[Navy Unit Commendation]]
|-
| scope="row" colspan="2" align="center"| [[Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service]]
| colspan="2"| [[Good Conduct Medal (United States)|Navy Good Conduct Medal]] (8 awards)
| colspan="2"| [[China Service Medal]]
|-
| scope="row" colspan="2" align="center"| [[Navy Occupation Service Medal]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Defense Service Medal]] with one bronze [[service star]]
| colspan="2"| [[Korean Service Medal]] with two service stars
|-
| scope="row" colspan="2" align="center"| [[Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal]]
| colspan="2"| [[United Nations Korea Medal]]
| colspan="2"| [[Korean War Service Medal]]
|-
|colspan="6"|[[Surface Warfare insignia|Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist insignia]]
|}
*8 gold [[service stripe]]s.

===Navy and Marine Corps Medal citation===

[[File:Navmarine.png|left|40px]]

<blockquote>The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl Maxie Brashear, United States Navy, for heroism while serving aboard U.S.S. HOIST (ARS-40), which was operating in support of Task Force 65 on 23 March 1966, in connection with salvage operations of great importance to the United States. While engaged in transferring stores from a landing craft to HOIST in heavy seas off the coast of Spain, Chief Brashear saw the bowline of the landing craft part. Realizing that a shipmate standing in the stern of the landing craft was in serious jeopardy if the heavily strained stern line also parted, he unhesitatingly pushed his shipmate to safety, but was seriously injured himself when the stress from the remaining line caused a portion of the craft to carry away and hit him in the leg. By his prompt and courageous actions in saving another man from injury or possible death, Chief Brashear, at the risk of his own life, upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.<ref>{{cite web |title=Carl Brashear - Recipient - |url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/305489 |website=valor.militarytimes.com |access-date=2 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>

==Honors==
Brashear was honored with the [[Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service]] in October 2000 for 42 years of combined military and federal civilian service. The award was presented by [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[William Cohen]].{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

On 24 October 2007, the [[Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]] Fire Department dedicated a {{convert|33|ft|m|adj=on}} high-speed fireboat named [[Carl Brashear (fireboat)|''Carl Brashear'']] to be used by their Dive and Marine Incident Response Teams.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cms.firehouse.com/content/apparatus/detail.jsp?id=46272|title=Newport News Fire Department: Fireboat-1 Carl Brashear|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112223755/http://cms.firehouse.com/content/apparatus/detail.jsp?id=46272|archive-date=12 January 2008}}</ref>

The [[Lewis and Clark class dry cargo ship|''Lewis and Clark''-class dry cargo ship]] [[USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE-7)|USNS ''Carl Brashear'' (T-AKE-7)]] was christened in his honor in [[San Diego, California]], on 18 September 2008.<ref name="USNSquotes">{{cite news|title=Navy Ship Named For Diving Pioneer|last=Wiltrout|first=Kate|date=19 September 2008|work=The Virginian Pilot|pages=Hampton Roads 1–2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=35405|title=Navy Secretary Names Two New Auxiliary Dry Cargo Ships|work=Press release|publisher=[[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]]|access-date=10 March 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113160400/http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=35405|archive-date=13 January 2009}}</ref><ref name="HRcom">{{cite web|url=http://hamptonroads.com/node/480401|title=Navy to christen ship today honoring diver Carl Brashear|date=15 September 2008|publisher=Hampton Roads.com|access-date=19 September 2008|archive-date=22 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522141337/http://hamptonroads.com/node/480401|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[General Dynamics]] delivered the completed ship to the Navy on 4 March 2009.<ref>{{cite web|author=General Dynamics|title=NASSCO Delivers USNS Carl Brashear|work=Defense Mirror|date=4 March 2009|url=https://www.defensemirror.com/news/2877/U_S__Navy_received_USNS_Carl_Brashear_from_General_Dynamics|accessdate=12 October 2023}}</ref>

On 21 February 2009, [[Nauticus]], a science and maritime museum in downtown Norfolk, Virginia, opened a new exhibit called "Dream to Dive: The Life of Master Diver Carl Brashear."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nauticus.org/trvlexhib.html|title=Nauticus: Changing Exhibit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208091942/http://www.nauticus.org/trvlexhib.html|archive-date=8 February 2009}}</ref> It is the first full-scale museum exhibit dedicated to Brashear.

In 2009 the Chief Petty Officer Club onboard Naval Station Little Creek VA was renamed The Carl Brashear Center. Carl's son and several friends gave speeches at and attended the renaming ceremony. Carl was known to frequent the CPO Club onboard Little Creek up until the time of his death.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

On 9 November 2017, the Commonwealth of Kentucky dedicated the "Carl M. Brashear Radcliff Veterans Center" in honor of BMCM (MDV) Carl Brashear.<ref name="thenewsenterprise">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thenewsenterprise.com/news/local/radcliff-veterans-center-to-honor-sonora-native/article_3bb86504-d68c-521a-9b28-79c3598ac630.html|title=Radcliff Veterans Center to honor Sonora native|last=Alford|first=Mary|access-date=11 September 2018|work=The News-Enterprise|publication-date=1 October 2017}}</ref> Construction on the new center, which is located about 30 miles from Brashear's hometown of Sonora, was completed about a year before the dedication ceremony. On hand was his son Phillip, Founder of the Brashear Foundation, Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton, Veterans Center Administrator Israel Ray, members of the Brashear family,<ref name="thenewsenterprise"/> along with members of the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association who nominated and worked to collect over 7,000 signatures in support of naming the center after Brashear.{{fact|date=October 2025}}

On 25 July 2018, Lincoln Parkway bridge, just outside Tonieville, KY was renamed the "Master Chief Petty Officer Carl Maxie Brashear Memorial Bridge."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thenewsenterprise.com/news/local/bridge-to-be-named-after-carl-brashear/article_da8ff179-b42b-5754-9ff7-4ce11d2c3493.html|title=Bridge to be named after Carl Brashear|access-date=11 September 2018|work=The News-Enterprise|publication-date=24 July 2018}}</ref>

Brashear's Dress Uniform is on display at the Hardin County History Museum in Elizabethtown, Kentucky as part of the "We Were There" Military Tribute and Exhibit.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hardinkyhistory.org/features.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515030535/http://www.hardinkyhistory.org/features.asp|url-status=usurped|archive-date=15 May 2006|title=Museum Artifacts and Memorabilia Exhibits Speakers Tours of Hardin County Elizabethtown History from the Hardin County History Museum preserving artifacts memorabilia rotating exhibits on display and speakers tours}}</ref>

[[Oris SA]] released the Oris Carl Brashear Cal. 401 Limited Edition dive watch to commemorate Brashear. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ablogtowatch.com/oris-debuts-carl-brashear-cal-401-limited-edition/|title=Oris Debuts Carl Brashear Cal. 401 Limited Edition|date=19 January 2021 }}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
*Stillwell, Paul. ''The Reminiscences of Master Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl Brashear''. Annapolis, MD: ''United States Institute''. 1998.
*{{cite web|url=http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/menofhonor.php
|title=Carl Brashear — Men of Honor
|work=Reel Faces
|access-date=22 June 2006}} Facts & fiction — real life versus the movie.
*{{cite web
|url = http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq105-1.htm
|title = Master Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl Maxie Brashear, USN (Ret.)
|publisher = [[Naval Historical Center]], [[United States Department of the Navy|Department of the Navy]]
|access-date = 25 November 2004
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20041204230006/http://history.navy.mil/faqs/faq105-1.htm
|archive-date = 4 December 2004
}} Brashear's NHC profile.
*{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/25/brashear.obit.ap/index.html
|publisher=[[CNN]]
|title= Inspiration for 'Men of Honor' dies, Carl Brashear was first black U.S. Navy diver
|date=25 July 2006
|access-date=26 July 2006}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}
*{{cite news
|url=http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060726/NEWS0104/607260521/1008/NEWS01 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119184354/http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060726/NEWS0104/607260521/1008/NEWS01 |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 January 2013 |work=Louisville Courier-Journal
|title=Kentuckian Carl Brashear, first black Navy diver, dies
|date=26 July 2006
|author=Michael Felberbaum
|access-date=26 July 2006}}
*[http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/131-12292005-590450.html Brashear has a Pedigree of Greatness]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080112223755/http://cms.firehouse.com/content/apparatus/detail.jsp?id=46272 Firehouse.com "Unit Bio – Fireboat-1 Carl Brashear"]
*[http://www.hamptonroads.tv/adv_search_embed.cfm?e=134871&keyword=&section=&source= Hampton Roads TV]{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 24 October 2007.

==External links==
*{{cite web
|access-date=17 August 2008
|url= https://www.afspc.af.mil/News/Commentaries/Display/Article/252622/direction-discipline-determination-the-story-of-carl-brashear/
|title=Direction, Discipline, Determination: The Story of Carl Brashear
|author=Pringle, Capt. Shuan
|date=21 February 2001
|publisher=Air Force Space Command, United States Air Force
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113153018/http://www.afspc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123041850
|archive-date=13 January 2009
}}
*[http://www.awesomestories.com/flicks/men-honor Story of Carl Brashear with rare photos from U.S. National Archives and the US Navy]
*{{Find a Grave|15044278|Carl Maxie Brashear}}

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