Different color shirts on carrier deck.

[4pwr]

Can anyone tell me what the different colored shirts worn on a carrier deck represent?

[burleytog]

On the Flight Deck the crew wear a variety of brightly colored shirts. Here is who they are and what they do:

Yellow Shirts: Flight Deck Officers and Plane Directors.

These are the only people on the flight deck authorized to move aircraft, or to give hand signals regarding taxiing the a/c, or moving it.

Blue Shirts: Flight deck crew, always work under the direction of a Yellow Shirt Director as part of a designated crew. Plane pushers/handlers; chock planes, push planes, scrub the decks, and do all the tough jobs on the flight and hangar decks.

Green Shirts: Catapult and Arresting Gear people. Operate, and maintain the Catapults and Arresting Gear. Squadron Aircraft Maintenance people also were green.

Brown Shirts: Squadron personnel, in particular Plane Captains. (No ship's company wear brown shirts.)

Red Shirts: Aviation ordnance crews. Load and "arm" those weapons on the aircraft. Sometimes referred to as "BB Stackers", or "Ordies".

Purple shirts: Aviation fuels people. Referred to as "Grapes". Gas aircraft. Operate & maintain carrier avgas/jet fuel/ av lube oil systems.

Checker shirts: Squadron maintenance Quality Control people. Responsible for final overall checks of a/c readiness before launch.

White shirts: Mail and people handlers for carrier on board delivery (COD).

White shirts with a Red Cross: Medical corpsmen assigned to flight deck during flight quarters. White shirts with a Red Cross are part of the crash crew.

http://www.skyhawk.org/2e/flt-ops.htm

[=Matt 5.0=]

On the Flight Deck the crew wear a variety of brightly colored shirts. Here is who they are and what they do:

Yellow Shirts: Flight Deck Officers and Plane Directors.

These are the only people on the flight deck authorized to move aircraft, or to give hand signals regarding taxiing the a/c, or moving it.

Blue Shirts: Flight deck crew, always work under the direction of a Yellow Shirt Director as part of a designated crew. Plane pushers/handlers; chock planes, push planes, scrub the decks, and do all the tough jobs on the flight and hangar decks.

Green Shirts: Catapult and Arresting Gear people. Operate, and maintain the Catapults and Arresting Gear. Squadron Aircraft Maintenance people also were green.

Brown Shirts: Squadron personnel, in particular Plane Captains. (No ship's company wear brown shirts.)

Red Shirts: Aviation ordnance crews. Load and "arm" those weapons on the aircraft. Sometimes referred to as "BB Stackers", or "Ordies".

Purple shirts: Aviation fuels people. Referred to as "Grapes". Gas aircraft. Operate & maintain carrier avgas/jet fuel/ av lube oil systems.

Checker shirts: Squadron maintenance Quality Control people. Responsible for final overall checks of a/c readiness before launch.

White shirts: Mail and people handlers for carrier on board delivery (COD).

White shirts with a Red Cross: Medical corpsmen assigned to flight deck during flight quarters. White shirts with a Red Cross are part of the crash crew.

http://www.skyhawk.org/2e/flt-ops.htm

Shouldn't the delivery people be wearing the brown shirts???