 This February is African-American History Month. This year's theme is Civil Rights in America. Although African-Americans served in every war in its history, the Navy was not officially desegregated until 1948. In the 1970s, C. N. O. Admiral Zoomwald created fleet-wide policies and practices to offer more support for these sailors. He developed these changes to address bias in recruiting, assigning, and promoting African-Americans. Today, African-Americans serve in nearly every position the service has to offer, whether at sea, undersea, in the air, on land, or in space. The Navy History and Heritage Command said, in the foreseeable future, there will be no more first, for the day will come when a black man or woman will have served in every Navy billet. For Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer, Jamiah Cabrera.