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SAI(WR) Special Artificer (I) (Watch Repairman)

Merged into IM, dated 1948 by the source.

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IMInstrumentman · historical code
Listed as becoming PICM. No directory or archive record matches.

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Special Artificer (I) (Watch Repairman)

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.

Source documents (2)

Charles A. Malin/Bureau of Naval Personnel, Compilation of Enlisted Ratings and Apprenticeships, U.S. Navy, 1775 to 1969 (rev. Dec. 1969)
1. #anchori, Instrumentman entry; reproduced on archived Ohio PDF p. 9 · source dated December 1969
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Charles A. Malin/Bureau of Naval Personnel, Abbreviations Used for Navy Enlisted Ratings (1970)
2. alphabetic abbreviation list, SAI(WR), IM entries · source dated 1970
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