blue job

noun

Etymology

From the colour of the uniform, and slang job (“thing”).

Definitions

  1. A member of the air force.

    • Air force personnel used to distinguish airmen (blue jobs or boys in blue) from army personnel (brown jobs or boys in brown).
    • As Blue Jobs we had to walk behind the sweep line, probably because we would have been a liability had there been a scene. We hadn't quite reached the camp area when we heard the sound of Ray's chopper.

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