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  • About 850 vessels and 800 ground-crew workers were deployed along Alabama's coast on Monday as oil from an out-of-control well at the bottom of the sea washed up along some 30 miles of state beaches for a third straight day.

    Alabama Beaches See Clean-Up Crews But Few Tourists 2010

  • Teams can consist of up to four full-time undergraduate student members who will actually get to fly on the "vomit comet," and any number of additional ground-crew members.

    Next Generation: Student Opportunities 2008

  • Teams can consist of up to four full-time undergraduate student members who will actually get to fly on the "vomit comet," and any number of additional ground-crew members.

    Next Generation: Student Opportunities this Summer and Fall 2008

  • Teams can consist of up to four full-time undergraduate student members who will actually get to fly on the "vomit comet," and any number of additional ground-crew members.

    Next Generation: July 2008 2008

  • She counted nine as the pilot unfastened his harness, lowered the access hatch on the left of the cockpit and climbed out, helped by the ground-crew corporal.

    Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

  • The ground-crew personnel waved their fluorescent orange sticks and directed each bird into the proper spot.

    Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #1 Vince Flynn 1997

  • The ground-crew volunteers hauled the mooring lines taut and cleated them down.

    Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

  • You're not obliged to ground-crew ... if any of you were up to it.

    First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • You're not obliged to ground-crew ... if any of you were up to it.

    The Chronicles of Pern McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • The queens 'wing always made contact with ground-crew leaders before returning to the Weyr.

    Chronicles of Pern, First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993

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