bluejacket

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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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"Isn't war awful, sir?" a bluejacket on the Tuscaloosa asked Captain Daehne as they watched the Columbus blaze.

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"Why, you're British, and in Belgian get-up!" exclaimed the bluejacket in surprise.

From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)