He handed a copy of it to a ground crewman.

During summers, he worked as a ground crewman for a local flying circus so he could be closer to the airplanes.

Let's do it He gave the standard ground crewman's salute, just this side of an insult, and strode away yelling orders to his men.

Then a ground crewman was next to him, standing on the boarding ladder.

"Like I said," the ground crewman went on, "you get to spend time with a beautiful celebrity."

The loadmaster saw to it that his ground crewmen were properly at work before walking over to the pilot.

"We lost twelve ground crewmen too and 20 seriously injured."

They were operational training units for combat fighter pilots and ground crewmen.

It took five careful minutes before she was firmly strapped in place, and the ground crewmen withdrew.

There was also one death of a ground crewman.