"bluejacket" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 13, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:",
          "text": "It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.",
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          "ref": "1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 4, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:",
          "text": "‘[…] I’m not sure’, she continued, ‘that I won’t throw myself overboard, for the mere pleasure of being rescued by a blue-jacket […]’",
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          "ref": "1942, Emily Carr, “Regatta”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The Navy and the Indian tribes up and down the Coast took part in the races, the Navy rowing their heavy ship's boats round from Esquimalt Harbour, manned by blue-jackets, while smart little pinnaces “pip-pipped” along commanded by young midshipmen.",
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          "ref": "1939, Fred J. Buenzle, Arthur Grove Day, Bluejacket: An Autobiography, page 12:",
          "text": "[…] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy.",
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        "An enlisted man in the US Navy."
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          "ref": "1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:",
          "text": "He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.",
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        "A uniformed policeman."
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