Word: navymen
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...whole apparatus, bent on hitting a golf ball smartly, tips and convolutes and lunges, the Japanese admirals clutching each other for support in the main control center up in the head as the structure rocks and creaks. And when the golf shot is on its way the navymen get to their feet and peer out through the eyes and report: 'A shank! A shank! My God, we've hit another shank...
...another day, the rising sun was just beginning to shimmer over the Long Tau when Chief Signalman Bob Monzingo clamped on the black beret worn by U.S. Navymen in Viet Nam, stepped aboard PBR (Patrol Boat River) 756 and headed for a rendezvous with the fully loaded U.S. tanker Kalydon. So did the Viet Cong. Three hours later, the battle exploded. From the Long Tau's east bank, ambushers fired five Communist-made B40 rockets at the tanker. All five missed, and Monzingo's two-boat force foamed toward the attackers, blasting away with M-60 machine guns...
...radio message using Scorpion's call sign, "Brandywine," and the discovery of a 250-ft.-long steel hulk in 180 ft. of water off Cape Henry, Va., raised hopes that the missing sub might be found, by week's end she was still silent. The radio signal, Navymen bitterly concluded, had probably been a hoax; the hulk proved to be that of a World...
...their own families and sweethearts since their ship was seized off North Korea in January. Having failed at the diplomatic level to extract an apology from the U.S. for the Pueblo's activities, the North Koreans are now playing on the understandable fears of the captive Navymen to launch a propaganda campaign and to try to force the U.S. into some sort of an admission of wrongdoing...
...highly trained ear to sort out the sounds of the sea. Apart from a sub's noises, the sea is full of other sounds, a syncopated symphony of crackling shrimp, clucking sea robins and grunting whales; there is even the engine-like throb of an unknown sea animal that Navymen call the "130-r.p.h. fish." Once the various sounds have been sorted out, the American sub hunters flash the details of the sub's signature to a Navy base in the U.S., where a computer has memorized the signatures of the vast majority of the Soviet submarines. Within seconds...