bluejacket
Example Sentences
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"Isn't war awful, sir?" a bluejacket on the Tuscaloosa asked Captain Daehne as they watched the Columbus blaze.
From Time Magazine Archive
He, the most famed member of the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Alexis Carrel, distinguishes himself from the others with a little white headpiece that looks like the hat of a U. S. bluejacket.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seyfried St. Louis � For Seaman Carl Fowler, the bluejacket on watch on the destroyer U.S.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bluejacket wondered what was wrong, why he had been called to the "nut factory."
From Time Magazine Archive
But when they meet an uncivil or unkempt officer, or see an untidy soldier or bluejacket on the street, they worry that the national defense is going to pot.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
