Word: radioman
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...shocked to see a two-engine bomber circling overhead. It tried to land in a field and hit a farmer, killing him instantly, before coming to a halt a few yards short of a house. The Chinese pilot, Xiao Tianyan, 33, shouted for help; the navigator was dead. The radioman walked away with light bruises and asked to be sent home to China. Thus ended Navy Pilot Xiao's dramatic escape in his Chinese-built version of a Soviet Ilyushin Il-28. The pilot said he was dissatisfied with life in China because he had been passed over for promotion...
...retired from the U.S. Navy, and he had quit spying for the Soviet Union. But he was miserable. Unemployed and living on his $1,200-a-month service pension, the former chief radioman kept house in an olive-colored trailer in Davis, Calif., while his wife pursued her Ph.D. in hopes of helping to support them both. He listened to classical music, yet it did not soothe him. Referring to his decision to stop dealing in Government secrets, he wrote to his spymaster boss: "I realize this doesn't fit in with your advice and counseling over the years...
...when he became a communications specialist aboard the carrier Constellation. Travel notes found in John Walker's home place Walker in Hong Kong in August 1977, at the same time that the Constellation, with Whitworth on it, stopped there. About a year later, Whitworth was a chief radioman aboard the supply ship Niagara Falls when it made a visit to the Philippines; once again Walker was there to greet him. Walker's travel notes, the FBI contends, show that on both these trips Walker met a Soviet contact...
...district traffic manager in Richmond. While earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Virginia, Brown worked two summers as an AT&T ditchdigger and cable layer, making $13 a week. After joining the Navy during World War II and serving as a radioman in the Pacific Fleet, he became an equipment maintenance man for AT&T in Hartford, Conn...
...radioman and Beirut volunteer, he was a year into his four-year service and planned, despite a C high school average, to go to college afterward. A Marine stint, his family told him, would smooth his U.S. citizenship application; the parents had finally applied last spring, just after Alex went to Lebanon...