Here's why there are so many colored shirts on a aircraft carrier's flight deck

In the yellow jerseys are aircraft handlers who are responsible for taxiing planes around the chaotic flight deck. Catapult and arresting gear officers and plane directors also wear yellow.

Those wearing green jerseys are either cargo-handlers, air wing maintainers, or are responsible for maintaining the catapult and arresting gear machinery.

Purple-jerseyed personnel take care of all the fuel on the flight deck.

Those wearing blue jerseys help move aircraft around the flight and hangar decks. These personnel are plane handlers, aircraft elevator operators, and flight deck low tractor drivers.

Everyone wearing a red jersey is an ordnancemen, which means they handle the aircraft's bullets, bombs, missiles, and rockets on the flight deck.

Crash and salvage crews also wear red jerseys and work alongside those wearing silver protective suits.

Silver protective suits are worn by rescue personnel who save trapped aircrew from crashed aircraft.

Brown-jerseyed flight deck personnel are air wing captains or air wing line leading petty officers who oversee the maintenance of individual aircraft.