Need help with Navy rank

Question

I found this WWII vet with an odd rank code.

CSP US NAVY

I checked https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/18617-1942-1955-emergency-service-ratings/   and didn't find anything that made sense.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66921640/harvey-newell-jester

The profile hasn't been made yet, I'm about to put his father in.

Answer 1

Chief Specialist 

https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/22514-what-does-csp-mean/

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thanks, that page also sends you to the one I listed. I was hoping for some clarity. Specialist of what? Guess I'll have to send for his records too.

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Not sure if you have this 

https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/25210833?h=b386bc&utm_campaign=bandido-webparts&utm_source=post-share-modal&utm_medium=copy-url

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NO, I didn't but I do now. Quickly snatched.  THANK YOU!!!

If he was 31 before he enlisted or was drafted, unless there were battlefield promos he shouldn't have made chief that quickly.  Because of his age, they would have probably given him a "leadership" role over younger boys.

The pic on his FAG memorial looks like a grad with the little card under it. At this age, he doesn't have the usual Jester key points that I look for.

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I added that draft reg to his FAG profile. The MM had Geraldine married to her grandfather. Then I saw where a daughter had married a Waddell, Things started clicking. This daughter, Zella,  had a surviving daughter named Mrs Harvey Jester, the Geraldine who is married to Zella's father.
THANK YOU!!!
So that helped A Whole Lot!!!

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Pleasure to be of use . Did notice there was another jester born same year in North Carolina

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Quote: If he was 31 before he enlisted or was drafted, unless there were battlefield promos he shouldn't have made chief that quickly.  Because of his age, they would have probably given him a "leadership" role over younger boys. Unquote.

Exactly. I enlisted in U.S. Navy 1944. In recruit training, we were led by a Chief Specialist A Hagy. Prior to active duty, Chief Hagy was a high school coach. We were led to believe the A stood for Athletics. He entered active duty as a Chief Petty Officer, which was the highest enlisted rank at that time.

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A Chief who had an "A" within the diamond below the rocker and eagle was likely a specialist in athletics according to Bluejacket.com.

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Marion, Different family line. The NC Jesters are related thru a different son of Richard Jester-165, Thomas Jester-153 thru his son Jacob.

This Harvey Newell Jester of the draft card is descended from Jester-171 thru his son William.  I know the researcher who did the original hands-on research at SLC back in the 1980s and 90s.

Confusing I know.

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John, I was going to join in the mid-70s. And was told by my recruiter that I would be placed in a "leadership" position simply because I was about 22 and most going in were 18.

2 Afees, 2 swearing in dates and 2 emergency surgeries that sidelined me for 6 months each. I felt god was talking to me. I didn't want to try for a 3rd.

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David, so what is a chief specialist P?