{"id":20393,"date":"2012-12-03T09:34:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T12:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=20393"},"modified":"2012-12-03T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T12:34:44","slug":"skittles-on-the-flight-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/03\/skittles-on-the-flight-deck\/","title":{"rendered":"Skittles on the Flight Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever\u00a0seen a movie about an American naval aircraft carrier flight deck, you&#8217;ve likely noticed the varied colored shirts\/helmets worn by various teams on the deck.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve ever wondered what they all mean, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodlive.mil\/index.php\/2012\/12\/flying-colors\/\">DoD Live provides a primer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The yellow shirts are generally worn by the person in charge. Their job consists of aircraft handling officers, catapult and arresting gear officers and plane directors.<\/p>\n<p>The blue shirts [perform] as aircraft handlers, <!--more-->tractor drivers, aircraft elevator operators, and messengers and phone talkers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Purple shirts&#8230;are also referred to as \u201cGrapes\u201d. These men and women operate, maintain and perform organizational maintenance on aviation fueling and lubricating oil systems&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Green shirts&#8230;perform duties as catapult and arresting gear crews, air wing maintenance personnel, cargo-handling personnel&#8230;They do everything from working on the equipment&#8230;to documenting all the sailors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The red shirts&#8230;consist of aviation ordnancemen, crash and salvage crews and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD).<\/p>\n<p>Brown shirts [plane captains\/crew chiefs] are largely responsible for the maintenance and general well-being of all the functions on the aircraft itself.<\/p>\n<p>White shirts are made up of&#8230;quality control&#8230;, squadron plane inspectors, landing signal officers&#8230;, safety observers, and medical personnel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The use of colored shirts can seem a little&#8230;elementary&#8230;to an outside observer.\u00a0 The flight deck, though, is an extraordinarily busy (and dangerous) place.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a system that seems to work well, and that&#8217;s what matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever\u00a0seen a movie about an American naval aircraft carrier flight deck, you&#8217;ve likely noticed the varied colored shirts\/helmets worn by various teams on the deck.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve ever wondered what they all mean, DoD Live provides a primer: The yellow shirts are generally worn by the person in charge. Their job consists of aircraft handling officers, catapult and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3718,3720,3719,2,36],"class_list":["post-20393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft-carrier","tag-colored-shirts","tag-flight-deck","tag-military","tag-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}