Are red t-shirts standard GI attire?

[LiberalAndProud]

If not, what do they mean? Red state?

I thought of wounded soldiers when I noticed them.

video link:
http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=674c013708f812e0363269751a784ccacdbaa5bb

[democracyindanger]

1. Marines wear red tshirts with yellow lettering

I assume that's what you're talking about. Video isn't working for me.

[DS1]

5. Not in the last 15 years

It's been green, then brown.

[acmejack]

8. That's a shocker!

No sense of tradition anymore...

[DS1]

10. Tradition?

The only thing that was a tradition by the time I left in 95 was running people up to the CO's office for permanent record entries over stupid stuff.

[RobertSeattle]

2. That might be someone's wife next to a marine

But Marines do wear red shirts for physical training and casual non regular uniform events.

http://images.google.com/images?q=marines+red+shirt&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

[MADem]

3. No, that is not a military person--it is someone with a similar jacket

and a red collared shirt. They wear olive drab tee shirts with their working uniform.

[pocket]

4. army & navy are brownshirts

marines wear green t-shirts, airforce wears black

[MADem]

9. When did USN start wearing brown? I retired not too long ago

and we all wore white...save Seabees and Seals, that is.

[pocket]

11. i meant seabees, etc...

fleeters do wear white.

[TheWraith]

6. Somebody's idea of dark humor?

I can't get the video, but "redshirt" is a minor colloquialism for cannon fodder. It originated with the TV show "Star Trek" in the '60s, where they would show an anonymous red-clad Security officer getting killed to prove a situation was dangerous. Eventually it became a generic phrase for replacable troops who nobody cares. It's most prevalent among writers and science-fiction fans.

Then again, it may just be somebody wearing a red t-shirt.

[neuvocat]

7. Not in combat.

The red colors are too easy to notice with all the camoflage.

[LiberalAndProud]

12. Updated link.

http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=False&storyId=674c013708f812e0363269751a784ccacdbaa5bb

The video has been edited from the rough, so my eyes may have deceived me, but I thought I saw red t-shirts under camouflage jackets. If I did, those frames are gone.