[CaptainHaplo]

In Silent Running by Calvert, he relates the death of the Jack's COB, and how another chief (by rank) was selected to be the new COB. The gentleman was the cook - and the wording of that and subsequent passages leads one to the assumption that the gentleman may have been "African American". The man continued the tradition of excellence that the position requires.

When society wishes for a true "color blind" society, it should look to the hero's it has sent into harms way - for when ordinance flies, there is no color that matters but one - and that is the one in which we all bleed to keep our brothers in arms, and our families at home, safe.