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[[image: seaman trainee with submarine escape tank]]
[[caption embedded in photo]]
Seaman David Gooch, submarine school student at New London, rides training line to surface in 100-ft escape tank. [[/caption]]

[[image: two men sitting with decompression chamber]]
[[caption Decompression chamber is first screening step [[/caption]]

[[headline]] Navy's policy of Integration [[/headline]]
* In comparison with the Army and Air Force there are fewer Negroes in the Navy (15,000). This number is less that two per cent of the total strength. Traditionally Negroes were restricted to the Navy messmen's division. Today, eight years after this ban was dropped, most Negroes (about 60 per cent) still are stewards. But in contrast with former years, Negroes now hold every general service rating and serve on every type of ship.
The Navy's drastically reduced appropriation is one of the main reasons for the Negro's numerically unimportant role in this service. With economy demanded, the Navy pruned out its least capable me, relegated much of its fleet to the "mothball" class and operated installations with minimum crews. The Navy has witnessed a trend from complete segregation to one of integration. It began six years before the executive order banned discrimination.

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