Redshirt

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Not to be confused with Red coat.

Redshirt may mean:

• redshirt (college sports)
• a redshirt, a stock "cannon fodder" character in fiction, particularly in Star Trek: The Original Series
• one of the Redshirts, followers of Giuseppe Garibaldi
• the encryption scheme used in the Introversion Software games Darwinia and Uplink
• Kuilix, a Pend d'Oreilles woman whose name meant "Red Shirt" or "Red One"
• Delphine Red Shirt, Oglala Lakota Sioux writer

Red Shirt can be:

• Red Shirt, South Dakota
• Red Shirt, a post civil war Southern organization.

Red Shirts could refer to:

• Red Shirts, supporters of Wade Hampton in South Carolina for the gubernatorial election of 1876.
• Khudai Khidmatgar, a non-violent movement of Pashtuns against the British Empire in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

Red Shirt related tradions

• Red Shirt Thursday - a tradition at Donald A. Wilson Secondary School, in Whitby, Ontario, Canada.
• Red Shirt School of Photography - A growing trend in the 1950s, pioneered by National Geographic photographers, to have subjects wear overly colourful clothes