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Academy-award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (left) poses for the press after receiving a framed Navy diving certificate and being named an honorary diver by the Navy's diving community. Master Chief Petty Officer John Schnoering (right), a machinist's mate and master diver from the Navy Diving and Salvage School at Panama City, Fla., presented the certificate Oct. 21 at the Washington premiere of of the new movie "Men of Honor." Gooding stars in the film as Navy Master Chief Petty Officer Carl M. Brashear, the Navy's first African-American diver. Photo by Staff Sgt. Scott Ash, USAF.

Academy-award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (left) poses for the press after receiving a framed Navy diving certificate and being named an honorary diver by the Navy's diving community. Master Chief Petty Officer John Schnoering (right), a machinist's mate and master diver from the Navy Diving and Salvage School at Panama City, Fla., presented the certificate Oct. 21 at the Washington premiere of of the new movie "Men of Honor." Gooding stars in the film as Navy Master Chief Petty Officer Carl M. Brashear, the Navy's first African-American diver. Photo by Staff Sgt. Scott Ash, USAF.

Academy-award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (left) poses for the press after receiving a framed Navy diving certificate and being named an honorary diver by the Navy's diving community. Master Chief Petty Officer John Schnoering (right), a machinist's mate and master diver from the Navy Diving and Salvage School at Panama City, Fla., presented the certificate Oct. 21 at the Washington premiere of of the new movie "Men of Honor." Gooding stars in the film as Navy Master Chief Petty Officer Carl M. Brashear, the Navy's first African-American diver. Photo by Staff Sgt. Scott Ash, USAF.

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