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Sp(W) Specialists (W) Chaplain's Assistants

Discontinued, effective March 1, 1965.

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Specialists (W) Chaplain's Assistants · 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 (W) Chaplain's Assistants 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(W) entry)

Specialist (Chaplain's Assistant) · Merged into PN, 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 1948. Normalized as merged/included. 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 (W) Chaplain's Assistants 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(W), PN entries)

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