bluejacket

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From a military standpoint this is not long enough to turn out a well-trained soldier or a bluejacket.

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The bluejacket wondered what was wrong, why he had been called to the "nut factory."

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Seyfried St. Louis � For Seaman Carl Fowler, the bluejacket on watch on the destroyer U.S.S.

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A U.S. bluejacket staggered through the thick odor and the rude sounds of the old port of Naples.

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The sub rushed to the side just in time to see the outstretched arms of a bluejacket emerging from the following wave of the swiftly moving craft.

From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)