1:34:01
-To where, chief?
-Full diving duty.
1:34:05
l want to dive again.
1:34:06
Carl. . .
1:34:08
-. . .l understand but. . . .
-But. . .
1:34:11
. . .it's just not possible.
1:34:14
Good afternoon, admiral.
1:34:16
-Carl, this is--
-Captain Hanks.
1:34:19
Chief Brashear.
1:34:20
Captain Hanks is the senior officer. . .
1:34:23
. . .of the Personnel Policy
Control Board at the Pentagon.
1:34:27
He'll be with us a few weeks. . .
1:34:28
. . .meeting some of the men from the
front lines, hearing their concerns.
1:34:32
To return to the chief's
primary concern.
1:34:34
Working as a Navy diver
with one good leg and the other. . . .
1:34:39
l'm sorry, it's just not possible.
1:34:42
Cut it off.
1:34:46
''lnjured pilots have requested
amputation of injured limbs.
1:34:50
With a prosthesis,
several have returned to duty. ''
1:34:54
l'm asking this:
1:34:56
Cut off my leg and assemble a medical
review board 1 2 weeks from today.
1:35:01
Then l will demonstrate that l am fit
to return to full diving duty.
1:35:05
l want to make master chief.
1:35:10
We admire your courage, chief,
however misplaced it may be.
1:35:14
Please excuse us.
1:35:26
l am a doctor, Carl.
1:35:28
My opinion might mean something here.
1:35:34
l guess not.
1:35:37
How will you come back with one leg?
1:35:40
l could barely read once.
l found a way.
1:35:45
l could put up with the months
at sea. . .
1:35:49
. . .the dangerous assignments
you never refused.
1:35:51
-But this?
-What do you want from me?
1:35:55
That l come home, mow the lawn,
put a wheelchair ramp in?
1:35:59
-How am l gonna look at my son?
-Leave him out of this.