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Sp(E)(PS) Specialists (E) (PS) Motion Picture Service (Bookers)

Renamed to ESU, dated 1948 by the source.

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Specialists (E) (PS) Motion Picture Service (Bookers)

Malin/BUPERS source assertion: changed to Booker (Motion Picture Service) 1948. Normalized as renamed/changed.

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. #anchors, Specialists (E) (PS) Motion Picture Service (Bookers) entry; reproduced on archived Ohio PDF p. 15 · 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, Sp(E)(PS), ESU entries · source dated 1970
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