[Blzbba]

Question: I watch his press conference last nite and wondered who the military guys were in the multi-colored shirts? Anyone know? They stood out like sore thumbs against the rest of the same-dressed military.

Nice landing, Mr. Pres!

[Alberta's Child]

I think the different colors are used to identify different groups of crew members on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.

[RJL]

Question: I watch his press conference last nite and wondered who the military guys were in the multi-colored shirts? Anyone know? They stood out like sore thumbs against the rest of the same-dressed military.

Any "Old Salts" step in and help here.

On the flight deck each different colored shirt designates a different responsibility or job. The brightly colored shirts prevent accidents by leaving no doubt about who is who when viewed from inside an airplane or from a distance.

I think it was kind of a color guard ceremony for the President yesterday.

[ThinkingMan]

Those are the flight deck and plane crews- each shirt has a different job:

Purple Shirt- Fuel (Ships Company)
Red Shirt- Ordinance (Squadron)
Yellow Shirt- Taxi and move planes (SC)
Green shirt- Plane mechanics (power plant, airframe, avionics etc.) (Squadron)
Brown Shirt- Plane captain/ line crew (chains, chocks, etc.) (Squadron)
White Shirt- QA/LSO (Squadron)

(I was a brown shirt)

[AFreeBird]

ON a carrier flight deck, all personell are color coded according to job function.

Red=Weapons
Yellow=Aircraft control (Taxi)
Green=Catapult
Blue=Tiedowns
Purple=Fuel
White=Safety
Silver=Fire/Emergency
Brown=Aircraft Chief