16 example sentences using crewman.
Crewman used in a sentence
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Being a Pershing crewman was actually quite high-risk.
Try issuing performance guarantees on an airplane whose fuel pump can set 0 and 0 to -1 if the ground crewman that filled the wing tanks was named "Bob Null".
It's depressing working for a sinking ship, and as a crewman on the ship, you can feel like your bear some responsibility.
The captain comes to bridge and asks some crewman to shut off the alarm sound. Because such a warning is useful until it's heard and understood, and then it's only seriously distracting.
Multiple crewman have died from multiple preventable errors in multiple incidents. I haven't heard about any firing squads for COs?
Plus according the the above book not only did the crewman adjust the temperature when he saw the light flash, but Johnson felt the temperature was adjusted. The idea here is not whether or not Johnson understood the technology.
A nuclear warhead tipped Titan II ballistic missle blew up in its silo in 1980 after a maintenance crewman dropped a wrench and punctured the tank causing fuel to leak out. The tank depressurised and the missile came close to collapsing because the tank could not support its weight.
I don't even know if the ground crewman was a BA employee or an Airport employee, but the BA rep on the phone told me she was mortified at what had happened and the next day they couriered a check to me. No bickering, no stonewalling, no email voids, just pure customer service.
Phrases from "they build a better fool" to "they build a better US Navy crewman" are a hundred a penny, and yes I've experienced the other side of this. The best programmer vs the worst user, and every mix in between, shall produce situations needing attention this article addresses.
Nobody questions would question a contemporary account of German flak in WW2 feeling like a darkening of the sky from the perspective of a bomber crewman. The end results speak for themselves -- you can correlate the order of battle of the English from multiple areas and the outcome of major engagements and wars are known.
βTo a working person β supermarket checker, lawyer, highway crewman, housewife, cellist, computer repairer, teacher, waitress β spare time is the time not spent at your job or at otherwise keeping yourself alive, cooking, keeping clean, getting the car fixed, getting the kids to school. To people in the midst of life, spare time is free time, and valued as such.
So the crewman would take a breath from the oxygen mask, blow on the cigarette which would then burn like a torch, take a puff, put the mask back on for another quick breath, blow on the cigarette before it went out, etc. He felt sorry for them.
But yeah it is a failure of crew management certainly - at very least there should be a solid "relief" procedure that can handle it - and even stable in the long odds of a crewman getting killed out of line of sight by say a glancing hit.
After reporting yet another dump on the sidewalk in front of our home, I saw the city crewman pull up, take his power sprayer, and blast the feces under my fence and all over my side yard - effectively rendering it no longer his problem.
In another episode, the captain would again rather let crewman die than use a medical treatment derived from historical unethical research. One episode of TNG comes to mind, where Picard is unwilling to beam a kid from his crew out of prison on some *** backwards totalitarian planet, where they are planning to execute him, because of the prime directive and "respect for their laws".
But then there should be a process that identifies such pilot before they even get on the plane, there are two crew in the cockpit, so if one crewman does something unsafe or inappropriate, the other person is there to notice it, call it out and, in the extreme case, to take control of the plane. Also, if the guy or gal has alcohol problems, it would likely be visible on their flying performance over time, it should be noticed during the periodic medicals, etc.
Crewman definitions
any member of a ship's crew
See also: sailor
a member of a flight crew
a member of a work crew