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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S. bluejacket who spoke could make allowances for human curiosity.
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
In the United States, we have fallen into the sloppy habit of saying that a soldier, bluejacket, airman, coast guardsman or marine is only an American civilian in uniform.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
