What is the official name of a "Shooter" (the one with the yellow jacket) aboard an aircraft carrier?

Question

Do you have to be an officer to have this job.

Everyone cleans the flight deck, it's called a FOD walk. You line up and clean everything up. The shooter is the one who launches the planes off the catapault.

Answer 1

They're the catapult officer.. yeah you have to be an officer to have the job, but they let other people do it for media events and stuff. And yeah, everyone does FOD walkdowns..

Answer 2

With the Air Boss overlooking operations from his perch high atop the carrier's island superstructure, teams of flight deck crew members, each in a shirt and/or jacket of a specific color go about their jobs of readying the aircraft for launch. The purple-shirted fuel handlers get the aircraft fueled. The red-shirted ordnance men load the ammunition and mount the bombs and missiles needed for the specific mission. The brown-shirted plane captains and blue-shirted plane handlers give the planes a final "once over" to make sure that they're flight worthy and ready to go. By now, the pilots and other flight crew members have completed their mission briefings in the squadron ready rooms and begin to climb aboard the aircraft, with the help of the plane captains. Once ready, the yellow-shirted directors use a series of intricate hand signals (required with all of the noise on the flight deck) to direct the movements of the aircraft toward the catapults. The green-shirted catapult handlers hook the planes to the catapults, signal when everything is ready, and give the final signal for the catapult control room (located below the flight deck) to launch. This process can be repeated as quickly as every 90 seconds for each of the four catapults on the carrier. All this time, white-shirted safety personnel and silver-suited fire crews stand by in case of problems.

Answer 3

there arent anyone on a carrier that shoots anything. the yellow jackets are enlisted people who clean the flight deck