Men Of Honor

This military drama was based on the true story of Carl Maxie Brashear (January 19, 1931 - July 25, 2006) who was the first African-American to serve as a diver in the United States Navy (early 1950's). Brashear was born to a poor farming family, and joined the Navy in hopes of bettering himself.

When he was leaving his home town, his father says “never come back my son” and gave him a radio as a token of love.

Initially Carl joined as a cook in Navy and after two years he got an opportunity to join diving school. He first encountered Master Chief Billy a gruff and tyrannical diving instructor who holds absolute sway over his charges. At that time the people had the racial discrimination between whites and blacks.

Brashear proved himself as a diver by rescuing a fellow student. Unfortunately, due to the prevailing racism of the commanding officer, the student who fled in the face of danger is awarded a medal for his heroic actions.

One day Billy broke Carl’s radio and at that moment also Carl was very patient.

Billy hates Brashear only because of his color, but Brashear's talent and determination slowly changed his attitude. He assembled the broken radio and gave back to Carl.

Carl faced many more challenges both mentally and physically. He sacrificed his leg in saving his colleagues lives. The U.S Navy asked Brashear to quit, at that time Billy motivated Brashear and said him to join Navy again. He took 4 weeks of training from Billy.

Finally Brashear proved himself to be fit in the court by wearing the clothes of a diver which weighs over 240 pounds and walked 12 steps.

There after he continued to work in the Navy for 9 more years.

Tagline: History is made by those who break the rules.

The lessons I learnt from the movie...

1. One should be very patient and deterministic to achieve the goal.

2. One must convert the difficulties in to opportunities with attitude and core values through perseverance.