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Personnel Officer: "Have you had physics?" (Recommended but not required.) The bluejacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Struck Out | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

Richards also pointed to the program at the Great Lakes Naval Training, Sation recently. The Bluejacket's Manual, Bible of the Navy, was put into Basic English, and a group of 15 to 20 sailors studied the simplified version. They made better scores than did those who used the standard text, and they learned it more rapidly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Richards Says Basic, English Will Aid Education, Press | 1/14/1944 | See Source »

Cumbersome, inefficient bookkeeping will be replaced by a simple pay-record card to be carried by the bluejacket wherever he goes. In theory, presentation of the card to any paymaster on payday will get Jack his money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Sailors' Pay | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...read his Bluejacket's Manual every night before he went to bed, because he was a good boy and he was in the Navy. And when he walked out on the street in his nice blue uniform of the Naval ROTC he saluted just everybody, because he loved the Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All I Did Was Salute; He Shouldn't Have Said that | 7/27/1943 | See Source »

...Harvard education. They seemed slightly leery, however, about the problem of fitting into a society which they had always heard consisted almost exclusively of blue bloods. Then, almost as soon as they arrived, they see the College referred to as just that. It's enough to drive any bluejacket into his shell...

Author: By Robert S. Landau, | Title: Passing the Buck | 7/13/1943 | See Source »

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