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Academy-award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. waves to fans while retired Master Chief Petty Officer Carl M. Brashear, the Navy's first African-American master diver, looks on. Gooding plays Brashear in the new movie "Men of Honor," due to be released Nov. 10. Both attended the film's Washington premiere Oct. 21. Photo by Linda D. Kozaryn.

Academy-award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. waves to fans while retired Master Chief Petty Officer Carl M. Brashear, the Navy's first African-American master diver, looks on. Gooding plays Brashear in the new movie "Men of Honor," due to be released Nov. 10. Both attended the film's Washington premiere Oct. 21. Photo by Linda D. Kozaryn.

Academy-award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. waves to fans while retired Master Chief Petty Officer Carl M. Brashear, the Navy's first African-American master diver, looks on. Gooding plays Brashear in the new movie "Men of Honor," due to be released Nov. 10. Both attended the film's Washington premiere Oct. 21. Photo by Linda D. Kozaryn.

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