| Color |
Role
|
| Yellow |
- Aircraft handling officer
- Catapult and arresting gear officer
- Plane director – responsible for all movement of all aircraft on the flight/hangar deck
|
| Green |
- Catapult and arresting gear crew
- Visual landing aid electrician
- Air wing maintainer
- Air wing quality controller
- Cargo-handler
- Ground support equipment (GSE) troubleshooter
- Hook runner
- Photographer's mate
- Helicopter landing signal enlisted personnel (LSE)
|
| Red |
- Ordnance handler
- Crash and salvage crew
- Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD)
- Firefighter and damage control party
|
| Purple |
|
| Blue |
- Trainee plane handler
- Chocks and chains – entry-level flight-deck workers under the yellowshirts
- Aircraft elevator operator
- Tractor driver
- Messengers and phone talker
|
| Brown |
- Air wing plane captain – air wing squadron personnel who prepare aircraft for flight
- Air wing line leading petty officer
|
| White |
- Quality assurance (QA)
- Squadron plane inspector
- Landing signal officer (LSO)
- Air transfer officer (ATO)
- Liquid oxygen (LOX) crew
- Safety observer
- Medical personnel (white with Red Cross emblem)
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