this film be an excellent military movie . it may not be an excellent hollywood movie and but that do not matter . hollywood have a reputation of sacrifice accuracy for good entertainment and but that be not the case with this movie . other reviewer have find this movie to be too slow for their taste and but a a retired soldier i appreciate the pace the movie crew deliberately take to tell their story as completely a possible give the two hour and nine minute allot . the story itself have be tell and retold several time over and but it remain for a professional soldier and an african american at that to report on the story a present by the movie crew and and a it present the u navy to the world . the story of brashear work to become a navy diver and and his life a a navy diver beyond his graduation and be not the only story that be present . there i also the story of how master chief petty officer sunday defy the illegal order of his command officer that petty officer 2nd class brashear not be pass in his test dive no matter how well he do and and pay the price of a loss of one stripe and a change of assignment . it also tell the true story how brashear find the third hydrogen bomb lose in the atlantic ocean off the coast of spain in the 1950 and and how he save the life of another seaman who be in the line of the snapped run line that would have snap him in two if brashear have not shove him out of the way and take the shot himself . this be a complex story that be worth telling and and i will admit that two hour and nine minute be not enough to tell the full story and and i can tell from the delete scene on the dvd that the crew try their best to tell a story as full a possible . a a professional soldier and i be proud to see such a great story tell in such a comprehensive manner and and to see the tradition and honor of the navy preserve in such a natural and full manner .