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Her blockbuster 2014 holiday movie, Unbroken followed Olympian Louis Zamperini turned WWII pilot, who spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he’s caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
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Natalie Sitek, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2024
This past weekend, Andrew Middleton took the ship's captain and a crewman shopping at a nearby Walmart.
—Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
One of Rosie’s crewmen, Lieutenant Nash, has no time for morbid reflection.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
Though the Sick died off with Thacker and his crew, a woman who romanced one of the crewmen eventually gives birth to a son named Munaq who is half-boy, half-caribou.
—Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
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Natalie Sitek, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2024
This past weekend, Andrew Middleton took the ship's captain and a crewman shopping at a nearby Walmart.
—Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
One of Rosie’s crewmen, Lieutenant Nash, has no time for morbid reflection.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
Though the Sick died off with Thacker and his crew, a woman who romanced one of the crewmen eventually gives birth to a son named Munaq who is half-boy, half-caribou.
—Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
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In total, 58 of Upton’s shipmates died when the USS Utah quickly sank, and 461 sailors survived.Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
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Svoboda was told the engineers were crucial in keeping the ship from capsizing by counter-flooding the engine room, essentially sacrificing themselves to save as many shipmates and ships around them as possible.Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Sure enough, just as deckhand Otto Knottnerus turned on his camera, the whales leaped out of the water – at exactly the same time, in sync with one another.Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 3 Dec. 2024
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The captain and a deckhand had been rescued earlier in the week after the boat became stranded, Hawley indicated.Alex Nitzberg, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024
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Setting things in motion was the dropping off of a drunk seaman at NIS, by a Shore Patrol officer who was in a rush to a hot date and didn’t have time for a proper handoff to the MPs.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 9 Dec. 2024
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According to the Navy, the seaman was born June 15, 1918, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
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The late former president may have served honorably as a sailor, but his instincts as president were to shrink and deprioritize America’s naval forces.Steven Wills, National Review, 11 Jan. 2025
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Despite influencing multiple books and movies, in many ways, the sailors' real-life tale is even more harrowing.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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When Paris hosted the Games in 1900, a pair of Dutch rowers asked a French boy to be their coxswain.Jenna West, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
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Another Los Gatos boat that claimed silver medals was the Women’s Under 15 Quad-x with a coxswain.Phil Jensen, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
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Success planning provides each student with a navigator who co-creates a unique plan of action with each child, their family, educators, and other caring adults.Libby Schaaf, TIME, 13 Jan. 2025
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Other analyses of career navigation programs explain specific elements like the role of career navigators.Bruno V. Manno, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Based out of smaller home ports such as Greenport on Long Island, the Picket Force flotilla was known informally as the Corsair Fleet or, sometimes, the Hooligan Navy, an unsubtle nod to the ragtag collection of mariners at its core.David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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Perched atop a windswept bluff, this Victorian Gothic beauty has been guiding mariners since 1890.Cliff Lewis, Orange County Register, 13 Dec. 2024
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Landi and the two remaining seafarers were not so lucky.Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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The volunteers met seafarers from India, the Philippines, Turkey and elsewhere, said Ricard Rodríguez-Martos, a Catholic deacon and former merchant marine captain who leads Stella Maris in this major Mediterranean harbor.Jalal Bwaitel, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Crewman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crewman. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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