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Submariners are among the most highly trained Navy service members #BlackLivesMatter #LGBTQRights #VetsAgainstTrump #SteelersNation #Resist #VoteBlue #KHive
Feb 16, 2022 19 tweets 4 min read
#BlackHistoryMonth Wesley Anthony Brown (April 3, 1927 – May 22, 2012) was the first African American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA), in Annapolis, Maryland. He served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War and served in the U.S. Navy from May 2, 1944, until June 30, 1969.
Feb 15, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
#BlackHistoryMonth Rear Admiral Anthony John "Tony" Watson (born May 18, 1949 in Chicago) is a retired 31-year Navy veteran and a graduate of the Naval Academy (1970). He is one of the "Centennial Seven" African-American sailors who served as commanding officers of United States submarines in the 20th century. He was the first black submariner to be promoted to rear admiral.
Feb 13, 2022 13 tweets 3 min read
#BlackHistoryMonth Dr. William Bundy born 12 August,1946 -15 December, 2019. The first African-American to rise from the enlisted ranks to become a submarine commander, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) Associate Provost. Image Dr. Bundy was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of William and Paulyne Bundy.
Feb 5, 2019 34 tweets 7 min read
Master Chief William Goines (SEAL)Ret.
Segregation may have kept retired Master Chief William Goines from using Lockland's only public pool, but it didn't stop him from learning to swim and eventually joining the first teams of Navy SEALs. Goines was a junior at Lockland Wayne High School when he saw a film that depicted Navy frogmen, who performed underwater demolition operations during World War II.”My fate was sealed right there.
Jan 22, 2018 6 tweets 2 min read
In 1942, Pittsburgh artist J. Howard Miller was hired by the Westinghouse Company's War Production Coordinating Committee to create a series of posters for the war effort. One of these posters became the famous "We Can Do It!" image—an image that in later years would also be called "Rosie the Riveter", though it was never given this title during the war. Miller is thought to have based his "We Can Do It!" poster on a United Press International wire service photograph taken of a young female war worker,