Word: mates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forced to sit in the smoking section of an airplane. As my seat mate began to light up, I leaned over and said, "No, I don't mind if you smoke, thank you. I throw up when I smell cigarette smoke." I had no further problem...
...What's up, mate?" he asked Buster...
...right, mate," said Whitby...
...most extreme of all breaks from tradition is that the service now has 23,356 women in uniform. Some 20 of them are pilots and fly attack planes as well as transport and passenger aircraft. Other Navy women skipper ships. Boatswain's Mate Juanita Heaster, for instance, is based in Naples, Italy, where she captains a small vessel that ferries supplies out to larger warships. She says she gets "a thrill out of taking a boat out in the rough seas," but still feels a lack of equality. "The men think that women can't do the work...
Said backcourt mate Bobby Allen, "He's very, very easy to play with, because he does everything right...