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He turned the Navy into a vast school, and today our "jackies" are probably the most intelligent, best educated, best informed body of fighting men in the world.

North Carolina's Part in the War 1917

A moment later she was surrounded by a group of excited women, and Captain Perry was calling the "jackies" forward in a voice of thunder.

Brewster`s Millions 1902

As for the enlisted men, the "jackies," they are not of the same piece of cloth as the jovial, carousing seamen of the old-time Navy.

Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty 1895

The "jackies" of to-day are nearly all extremely youthful; they are clean-cut, able, ambitious young fellows, much more inclined to study than to waste their time in improper resorts.

Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty 1895

Anyway, not really trying to fight with you jackies, I find some of BSNY's threads interesting, and thought I would make a comment or two.

BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz: Special Palate-Cleansing Edition BikeSnobNYC 2008

And then as the jackies gave them a cheer those olive drab boys answered till their throats were hoarse.

The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead

"Snap says he's just wise to everything, and did you ever see anything so absurd as those clown tricks the jackies taught him?"

Peggy Stewart at School

The rearguard of the Bolshevik armed forces was disappearing over the horizon when the American jackies seized engines and cars at Archangel

The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead

River and the actual landing while exciting to the jackies met with little opposition.

The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead

A fair-sized room, with a piano in one corner and groups of fidgeting jackies in every other corner.

Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926