Special Artificer (I) (Typewriter and Office Equipment Repairmen) · Merged into IM, effective 1948
Malin/BUPERS source assertion: Established 1948 from the ratings of Special Artificer (I) (Instruments), Special Artificer (I) (Typewriter and Office Equipment Repairmen), Special Artificer (I) (Watch Repairman), and Specialist (Q) (Technicians). Normalized as merged/included. One or more historical long-title variants were normalized to a reviewed companion-list abbreviation by similarity match; the intermediate ledger records the method and the audit lists the source anomalies.
Sources
- Charles A. Malin/Bureau of Naval Personnel, Compilation of Enlisted Ratings and Apprenticeships, U.S. Navy, 1775 to 1969 (rev. Dec. 1969) (#anchori, Instrumentman entry; reproduced on archived Ohio PDF p. 9)
- Charles A. Malin/Bureau of Naval Personnel, Abbreviations Used for Navy Enlisted Ratings (1970) (alphabetic abbreviation list, SAI(TR), IM entries)