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Nothing at all to do with either style or rank. If is a job identification system. It allows anyone at a glance to see if the proper people are where they need to be and doing what is required. If bombs were to be loaded, the Air Boss could look down from the tower and see a lot of 'red shirts'. If a plane needed to be moved, 'blue shirts'; fueled, grapes (purple shirts). Every single person on the flight deck is required to wear a specific colored jersey and flotation vest depending on their job and with their job stenciled in large letters on both the front and back. With that said, in the wardroom the 'inner circle' shooter was wearing a green jersey. He wasn't on the flight deck but that would not have been allowed in my day. The command master chief seems to have one of each color. He should wear a white one.
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<p>Yeah, I knew about the flight deck - that makes perfect sense. I was referring to the command master chief.</p>
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These people are working 18 hours a day in the most hostile environment on earth. 130d days. Sandstorms. And aircraft are filthy, oil, jet exhaust, hydraulic fluid. This is the working Navy, not some college campus.
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<p>I realize that those involved with the aircraft are most likely going to be perpetually exhausted and covered in gunk, but I'm wondering if the standards are the same on destroyers, cruisers, etc. as they are on carriers.</p>