Saturday, December 6, 2025

Swabbies…?

 


I think they’re actually swabbies? Off an aircraft carrier, maybe?

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  1. Flight deck crew. Yellow shirts move aircraft onto the catapult and park them when they return. Green shirts are in charge of the arrestor gear. Red is ordnance and purple shirts fuel the aircraft.
    Al_in_Ottawa

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    1. Green shirts are plane maintenance in general. I wore a green jersey, and I was in an AT (avionics tech) billet.

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  2. Never pass up chance to take a nap at work. Submarine vet.

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  3. USS Lexington 2 during the Marshall campaign. Original Lexington sunk at Coral sea.

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