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! Color !! Role
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| style="background: yellow; vertical-align: top;" | Yellow ||
* Aircraft handling officer
* Catapult and arresting gear officer
* Plane director – responsible for all movement of all aircraft on the flight/hangar deck
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| style="vertical-align: top; background: limegreen; color: white; vertical-align: top;" | 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)
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| style="background: red; color: white; vertical-align: top;" | Red ||
* Ordnance handler
* Crash and salvage crew
* Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD)
* Firefighter and damage control party
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| style="background:darkviolet; color:white; vertical-align: top;"| Purple ||
* Aviation fuel handler
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| style="background: blue; color: white; vertical-align: top;"| Blue ||
* Trainee plane handler
* Chocks and chains – entry-level flight-deck workers under the yellowshirts
* Aircraft elevator operator
* Tractor driver
* Messengers and phone talker
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| style="background: sienna; color: white; vertical-align: top;" | Brown ||
* Air wing plane captain – air wing squadron personnel who prepare aircraft for flight
* Air wing line leading [[petty officer]]
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| style="background:white; vertical-align: top;" | 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 [[emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|Red Cross emblem]])
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