Kevin Peterson, 31, and Tracy Humphreys, 30, were both ex-Navy men and experienced divers.

"It had better not," the ex-Navy man said, his voice still carrying a trace of resentment.

As an ex-Navy man, Connors recognized it as a parting shot aimed at him - below the waterline.

His name was Rogers Beecham, he was an ex-Navy man, and the owner of a large rubber plantation up the peninsula.

The ex-Navy man was a pretty good guy, even if he had sold out to the exploiters.

Rebecca's father (Robert Prosky), an ex-Navy man, has loaned her money over time.

The controller was a CPA, a graduate of the University of Texas School of Business, and an ex-Navy man.

I got Bob Maddox, an ex-Navy man with a handlebar moustache, and his daughter Tammie, who sometimes lobbies against gun legislation in Trenton.

Jack Rothera, an ex-Navy man, had wished from his boyhood days to work on the railway.

There's hardly a man jack in the Navy that hasn't run at some time, and not a privateer at sea who don't depend on ex-Navy men to crew his ship.