bluejacket
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Among them: Colonel Smith, his crew chief Staff Sergeant Christopher Domitrovich, and Albert Perna, a Navy bluejacket who had hitchhiked a ride from New Bedford.
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The U.S. bluejacket who spoke could make allowances for human curiosity.
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Cumbersome, inefficient bookkeeping will be replaced by a simple pay-record card to be carried by the bluejacket wherever he goes.
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"Isn't war awful, sir?" a bluejacket on the Tuscaloosa asked Captain Daehne as they watched the Columbus blaze.
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Where one man is employed in the merchantman, six or seven crowd in on board of Andrew; and the "bluejacket" is consequently handicapped when he finds himself thus lonely.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.