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Legacy Military Specialties
Military specialty codes get renamed, merged, and retired as the services restructure. Search a retired code to see what it was called, when it changed, and which current specialty carries its lineage. Every conversion is cited to an official manual or message.
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- ADAviation Machinist's Mate
- ADGAircraft Carburetor Mechanic
- AEAviation Electrician's Mate
- AETMAviation Electronics Technician's Mate
- AFAviation Photographer's Mate
- AFCAviation Fire Controlman
- ALAviation Electronicsman
- AMAviation Structural Mechanic
- AOMBAviation Bombsight and Fire Control Mechanic
- APAviation Pilot
- AQAviation Fire Control Technician
- ARAirship Rigger
- ARMAviation Radioman
- ARTAviation Radio Technician
- ASApprentice Seaman
- ATAviation Electronics Technician
- AWAviation Warfare Systems Operator
- AXAviation Antisubmarine Warfare Technician
- AZAviation Maintenance Administrationman
- AerogAerographer
- BGMSTRBuglemaster
- BKRBaker
- BMSTRBandmaster
- BRBoilermaker
- BTBoiler Technician
- BUBuilder
- BUGBugler
- CCStdChief Commissary Steward
- CDDriver
- CEConstruction Electrician's Mate
- CMConstruction Mechanic
- CM(CBB)Carpenter's Mate (CB) (Builders)
- CM(CBD)Carpenter's Mate (CB) (Draftsman)
- CM(CBS)Carpenter's Mate (CB) (Surveyors)
- CM(SRB)Carpenter's Mate (SR) (Builders)
- CM(SRJ)Carpenter's Mate (SR) (Joiners)
- COXCoxswain
- CTNCryptologic Technician-Networks
- DMDraftsman
- EAEngineering Aid
- EMElectrician's Mate
- EM(CBC)Electrician's Mate (CB) (Communications)
- EM(CBD)Electrician's Mate (CB) (Draftsman)
- EM(CBG)Electrician's Mate (CB) (General)
- EM(CBL)Electrician's Mate (CB) (Line and Station)
- EM(SRT)Electrician's Mate (SR) (I. C. Repairmen)
- EOEquipment Operator
- ESEPhysical Training Instructor
- ESFFire Fighter
- ESPPhotogrammetry Assistant
- ESRTransportation Man
- ESSShore Patrolman
- ESUBooker (Motion Picture Service)
- ESXSpecialist (ESX)
- ETMElectronics Technician's Mate
- ETRElectronics Technician, Communications (Submarines)
- FFireman
- FCFire Controlman
- FPPipefitter
- GFAviation Guided Missileman
- GMGuided Missileman
- HAHospital Apprentice
- IMInstrumentman
- ITSInformation Systems Technician, Submarines
- M(SRC)Metalsmith (SR) (Coppersmiths)
- MAMachine Accountant
- MEMetalsmith
- MMMachinist's Mate
- MM(CBE)Machinist's Mate (CB) (Equipment Operators)
- MM(SRO)Machinist's Mate (SR) (Outside Machinists)
- MMSMachinist's Mate (S) (Shop Machinist's)
- MMWMachinist's Mate, Non-Nuclear, Weapons (Submarines)
- MNMineman
- MaMMailman
- MattMess Attendant
- MoMMMotor Machinist's Mate
- MoMM(SRD)Motor Machinists's Mate (SR) (Diesel Engine Mechanics)
- MoMM(SRG)Motor Machinists's Mate (SR) (Gasoline Engine Mechanics)
- MusFirst Musician
- NWNuclear Weapons Man
- OC1cOfficer's Cook 1c
- OC2cOfficer's Cook 2c
- OC3cOfficer's Cook 3c
- OMOpticalman
- OSOfficer's Steward 1c, 2c, and 3c
- PCPostal Clerk
- PHPhotographer's Mate
- PRParachute Rigger
- PhMPharmacist's Mate
- PhoPhotographer
- PrTrPrinter
- PrTrLPrinter (L) (Lithographers)
- PrTrMPrinter (M) (Offset Process)
- PtrPainter
- RDRadarman
- RMRadioman
- RTRadio Technician
- SSeaman
- SAISpecial Artificer (I) (Instruments)
- SAI(TR)Special Artificer (I) (Typewriter and Office Equipment Repairmen)
- SAI(WR)Special Artificer (I) (Watch Repairman)
- SAOSpecial Artificer (O) (Optical)
- SCShip's Cook
- SC(B)Ship's Cook (B) (Butchers)
- SFShipfitter
- SF(CBM)Shipfitter (CS) (Mechanical Draftsmen)
- SF(CBR)Shipfitter (CB) (Riggers)
- SF(CBS)Shipfitter (CS) (Steelworkers)
- SF(SRP)Shipfitter (Ship Repair) (Pipefitter and Plumber)
- SHShips Serviceman
- SKStorekeeper
- SKDStorekeeper (D) (Disbursing Storekeepers)
- SMSignalman
- SOSonarman
- SPCMMaster Chief Steam Propulsionman (SPECIALIST)
- SVSurveyor
- SWSteelworker
- SoMSoundman
- Sp(A)Specialists (A) Physical Training Instructors
- Sp(C)Specialist (Classification Interviewer)
- Sp(E)(PS)Specialists (E) (PS) Motion Picture Service (Bookers)
- Sp(G)Specialists (G) Aviation Free Gunnery Instructors
- Sp(I)Specialist (Punch Card Accounting Machine Operator)
- Sp(O)Specialists (O) Inspectors of
- Sp(P)Specialist (Photographic)
- Sp(P)(LB)Specialists (P) (LB) Laboratory
- Sp(P)(MP)Specialists (P) (MP) Motion Picture Production
- Sp(P)(PG)Specialist (Photogrammetry)
- Sp(P)(VM)Specialists (P) (VM) V-Mail
- Sp(Q)(CR)Specialist (Cryptographer)
- Sp(Q)(IN)Specialist (Radio Intelligence)
- Sp(Q)(RP)Registered Publications Clerk)
- Sp(Q)(TE)Specialist (Technician)
- Sp(R)Specialist (Recruiter)
- Sp(S)Specialist (Shore Patrol & Security)
- Sp(S)(PS)Specialist (Personnel Supervisor V-10) (Waves)
- Sp(T)Specialists (T) Teachers
- Sp(T)(LT)Specialists (T) (LT) Link Trainer Instructors
- Sp(V)Specialist (Transport Airman)
- Sp(W)Specialists (W) Chaplain's Assistants
- Sp(X)(AC)Specialists (X) (AC) Archivists
- Sp(X)(AR)Specialists (X) (AR) Artists
- Sp(X)(BL)Specialists (X) (BI.) Ballistics
- Sp(X)(CC)Specialists (X) (CC) Cable Censors
- Sp(X)(CG)Specialists (X) (CG) Crystal Grinders
- Sp(X)(CT)Specialist (Cartographer)
- Sp(X)(DI)Specialist (Discharge Interviewer)
- Sp(X)(ED)Specialist (Engineering Draftsman)
- Sp(X)(FP)Specialists (X) (FP) Fingerprint Experts
- Sp(X)(GU)Specialists (X) (GU) Gage Specialists
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