Photojournalist · Renamed to PA, effective 1984
The official Historian article explicitly states that the Photojournalist rating was renamed Public Affairs Specialist in 1984. The Coast Guard finding aid supplies code PA for the lineage; the unchanged successor code records a title rename, not a code change.
Sources
- Lt. Cmdr. Matt Kroll, The Long Blue Line: The journalist rating, Coast Guard Historian's Office (HTML paragraph beginning 'In 1973' (sentence ending 'renamed to public affairs specialist in 1984'; no printed pagination))
- Dana Lewis, U.S. Coast Guard Enlisted Ratings: Rating Specialty Marks & Distinguishing Marks, 1915-2015 (printed p. 38 / PDF p. 39, Public Affairs Specialist (PA) entry)