Yeoman (PI)
The Historian article explicitly says remaining postwar correspondents became the yeoman (PI) sub-specialty and that, as part of the Coast Guard's 2 April 1948 service-wide reorganization, it was established and renamed as the Journalist rating. Code PI preserves the only predecessor identifier printed by the source; no synthetic Navy Specialist code or Navy YN branch is imported. The two contemporaneous Bulletins corroborate the Coast Guard-wide effective date and Navy-policy-conforming overhaul.
Source documents (3)
- Lt. Cmdr. Matt Kroll, The Long Blue Line: The journalist rating, Coast Guard Historian's Office
1. HTML paragraph beginning 'After the war' (no printed pagination) · source dated July 1, 2022
Open source document (opens in a new tab) - U.S. Coast Guard Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 3, September 1948, 'New Rating Structure'
2. article 'New Rating Structure,' printed pp. 25-26 / PDF pp. 5-6 · source dated September 1948
PDF page 5 (opens in a new tab)PDF page 6 (opens in a new tab) - U.S. Coast Guard Bulletin, vol. 3, no. 36, June 1948
3. 'Correspondence Courses May Be Required for Enlisted Promotion,' operative sentence at printed p. 512 / PDF p. 10 · source dated June 1948
PDF page 10 (opens in a new tab)