[mmichaels1970]

Those in red shirts are ordinance specialists, green for another duty, white shirts are shooters I think…brown shirts are another group…

When I was in, I wore Red which was for the fire party on the flight deck. I sat there with a hose for hours waiting to put out a crash that thankfully never happened. I think purple guys were for refueling. Yellow were like the guys that directed the landings (we had a helo deck). I can’t remember Brown. They might have been the flight crews. We called them “airdales”.

But, I suppose making snap judgements about our sailors might be fun for some. Thanks for putting it into proper context.

[Gay State Conservative]

This old Army guy loves to watch carrier flight deck videos. If I knew 50+ years ago what I know today I probably would have gone Navy.I thought red are ordinance,purple are fuel,white are the paddles and yellow are the shooters.