Greetings Christian,
As a retired Chief Petty Officer in the weapons field I experienced first hand life on a "bird farm" .
The USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) was my home from 9/83-6/85 which included supporting the Marines in Beruit, not a very pleasant assignement as we arrived just after their barracks was hit. If you get your hands on the book, "Supercarrier" you can learn about the ship and the crew as well as the airwing. Slated to be a nuclear powered carrier, for reasons of defense spending at that point as the keel was laid in 1967 and reactors had to be installed at about the same time, the Air Force got funding for 10 new ICBMs and the money went to the USAF instead. The John F. Kennedy went conventional along with sister ships like the USS Constelation, USS Kity Hawk and so forth, none of which are operational today.
The flight deck was not my assigned work space but I got up there on three occations for weapons training and it is the world's most dangerous place, bar none! Here are the color codes for the jerseys that the flightdeck personnel, officers, chief petty officers and enlisted wear with pride.
White; Safety Observers, I was one for weapons loading and I could stop a load if a hazard arose.
Red; Ordinance Handlers (not referred to as weaponeers) and Fire fighters
Blue; Aircraft directors in training, followed the hand signals of Aircraft directors while moving the a/c around the flight deck, drove the a/c handling tow vehicles
Yellow; A/C Directors, made certain the a/c were in the right areas for launch and maintenance
Green; Technicians, make final adjustments on a/c, make certain of "cat" attachments to a/c
Brown; Plane Captain (Usually assigned to the rank of E-3) The P/C rides in the cockpit of every aircraft being towed or moved around the flightdeck, although among the lowest enlist ratings he/she is responsible for the aircraft until the pilot arrives to take the aircraft over (borrow). The prestigious title of this person is painted on the nose landing gear door with his/her name, rating and hometown.
Purple; Fuel crew, responsible for the proper fueling on the flightdeck of all aircraft.
The ship's company, crew assigned to the ship itself as a duty station, the airwing, personnel that arrive onboard as part of the aircraft related duty stations from several land based Naval Air Stations.
I hope you find this helpfull.
John Staehle