noun
General Slang
brown shoe
· noun · military
A naval aviator. From the brown footwear that goes with the flight-crew uniform.
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A naval aviator or aircrew member, as opposed to a 'black shoe' — the surface warfare officer or sailor working the ship itself. Two tribes in the Navy with the eternal rivalry to match: who really runs the carrier.
“Wardroom's half brown shoes tonight — squadron just came aboard.”
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brown shoe In A Sentence
Wardroom's half brown shoes tonight — squadron just came aboard.
Origin & Usage
US Navy aviators and aircrew were authorised brown shoes with khakis from the 1920s onward, distinguishing them from the black-shoe surface-warfare community. The footwear came and went over the decades; the nickname didn't.
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