frogman
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frogmen
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Marine Corps and served as a frogman, doing tactical underwater work during the Korean War.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2020
A by-the-book submarine commander must drop off and wait for a Navy frogman on a World War II mission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2020
Davidson apologized to Crenshaw, and the former frogman was also able to take a few jabs at the comedian during their segment.
From Fox News ● Aug. 13, 2019
At one point, a diver had to descend into a slurry wall—a frogman Santa wielding an underwater welding torch fifty feet down a chimney full of muck—to free up some steel that had got caught.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
The frogman who had found the ball handed it up to Hobart Zircon.
From The Wailing Octopus by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
Yet Iran primarily sets mines using frogmen on small boats that resemble ordinary fishing vessels, an informal maritime militia of dinghies that is virtually impossible to identify and eliminate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
He can only admit this after he adopts a passel of fanged frogmen that he somehow finds charming.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2023
They were called combat swimmers, and frogmen; they developed a myth around them.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2022
Office of Strategic Services to help train underwater demolition teams, or frogmen.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2022
Navy divers, or "frogmen," used a mini-submarine to place a "pod" on an important Soviet underwater communications cable in the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan and near the eastern coast of the Soviet Union.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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