crewman
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crewmen
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His experience as a Navy helicopter crewman should help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
A crewman directing the aircraft wears a large Los Angeles Dodgers sticker on his yellow helmet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026
One Japanese naval crewman has died and seven others are missing after two helicopters crashed during a night-time drill in the Pacific Ocean.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2024
On Wednesday morning one crewman carried an umbrella up the gangway that the migrants unsteadily walked down last week, some of them met by stretchers and health workers with foil blankets.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
The shadow of a crewman plunged from the mast, then jerked to a halt, dangling precariously from a harness.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
A strength of “The Gales of November” is the way Mr. Bacon weaves in the stories of the crewmen who perished when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
Though all of the crewmen had seen it many times — Jordan alone has run more than 150 airdrops since July — they pressed their faces to the windows to glimpse the devastated landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
Mohammad and the other crewmen secured the loose rigging and packed their equipment before walking to their pickup truck for the ride home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
John captained two successful voyages on the Earl of Abergavenny to China before the tragic incident which took his life and that of around 250 crewmen and passengers.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2024
Commander Gorringe gathered a group of crewmen around him & they disgust the situation.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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