—One flub of the movie. The Senator who was on the armed appropriations committee never asked why there was a black officer on the bridge.-—
I’m sure he was thinking how it didn’t make sense, but there were a lot of unfamiliar things vying for his attention. A black guy on the bridge wouldn’t have been in the top ten of things that were messing with his mind at that time.
An F-14 or a Navy helicopter would be higher on the list.
In 1980 why wouldn’t there be black officers in the Navy? There most certainly were.