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n. - Naval service aboard an active ship

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  • No enlisted member shall be entitled under this order to receive both sea-duty pay and foreign-duty pay for the same period of time.
  • Captain Stewart had been on sea-duty for many successive years, preferring it to land duty since his wife's death when Peggy, his only child, was but six years of age.
  • Prior to the sea-duty deployment that ended in his being shot down over Hanoi, John McCain married Carol Shepp, an 18-year-old swimsuit model; fourteen years his junior!
  • Enlisted members entitled to receive basic pay shall be entitled to receive, additionally, sea-duty pay while on sea duty as defined in section 2 hereof, the period of...
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