History of Aerographer Mate (AG) Rating

Alexander G. McAdie was director of Harvard University’s Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory when he agreed to provide instruction in Aerography to a small group of U.S. Navy officer candidates. On December 3, 1917 the class convened for six weeks of instruction. Enlisted weather observers, the predecessors of today’s Aerographer’s Mate rating, known as Quartermasters (A) aerographic, were trained at the QM School located at Pelham Bay Park, on Long Island NY.