Army · SSN history

3812 Heavy Weapons Assault Infantryman

The Army rescinded SSN 3812, Heavy Weapons Assault Infantryman, and converted its authorized positions to successor MOS codes. Heavy-weapons leadership positions went to 1812 or 2812, while gunner, ammunition and filler positions went to 4812.

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Historical steps

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Codes without a directory match

  • 4812 stated by the source. No directory or archive record matches.

Documented history

Heavy Weapons Assault Infantryman

Paragraph 8a made the position conversions effective on the regulation's date, 29 April 1949.

  • Code 3812 alone does not establish which successor applied to a particular soldier.
Source extraction notes

Paragraph 5 rescinds this SSN. Heavy-weapons leadership positions convert to 1812 or 2812, while gunner/ammunition/filler positions convert to 4812. Repeated position-level change-sheet rows are collapsed into this one canonical predecessor event, preserving first-source successor order. The predecessor remains in the SSN namespace; successors are numeric MOS codes.

Source documents (4)

Reviewed September 23, 2026 against references 1, 2, 3 and 4.

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