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Sp(T) Specialists (T) Teachers

Discontinued, effective March 1, 1965.

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Documented history

Specialists (T) Teachers · Discontinued, effective March 1, 1965

Malin/BUPERS source assertion: disestablished March 1965. Normalized as disestablished/canceled.

Sources

Charles A. Malin/Bureau of Naval Personnel, Compilation of Enlisted Ratings and Apprenticeships, U.S. Navy, 1775 to 1969 (rev. Dec. 1969) (#anchors, Specialists (T) Teachers entry; reproduced on archived Ohio PDF p. 16)
Charles A. Malin/Bureau of Naval Personnel, Abbreviations Used for Navy Enlisted Ratings (1970) (alphabetic abbreviation list, Sp(T) entry)

Specialist (Teacher) · Split into PN, IMI, effective 1948

Malin/BUPERS source assertion: Established 1948 from the ratings of Yeoman, Specialist (C) (Classification Interviewers), Specialist (W) (Chaplain's Assistants), Specialist (T) (Teachers), Specialist (X) (Position Classifiers), Specialist (R) (Recruiters), Specialist (DI) (Discharge Interviewers), and Specialist (S) (Personnel Supervisors). | included in Personnelman and Instructor (Miscellaneous) 1948. Normalized as split/multi-destination. Reconciles 2 reciprocal, grade-specific, or repeated source assertions for the same predecessor/date.

Sources

Charles A. Malin/Bureau of Naval Personnel, Compilation of Enlisted Ratings and Apprenticeships, U.S. Navy, 1775 to 1969 (rev. Dec. 1969) (#anchorp, Personnelman entry; #anchors, Specialists (T) Teachers entry; reproduced on archived Ohio PDF p. 12, 16)
Charles A. Malin/Bureau of Naval Personnel, Abbreviations Used for Navy Enlisted Ratings (1970) (alphabetic abbreviation list, Sp(T), PN, IMI entries)

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