Army · SSN history

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SSN 628 was deleted with a reference to paragraph 16b, which ordinarily classified instructors under the specialty matching their field and scope of instruction, adding “Instructor” in parentheses to the title. For personnel permanently assigned to instruction but not qualified in a specialty related to the course, the rule authorized Technical Instructor (SSN 659) if highly skilled, or Basic (SSN 521) if they had no military occupational specialty.

Documented history

Title not stated in source

The deletion date is not stated. June 30, 1945 is the publication date of Change 2, not an established effective date for deleting SSN 628.

  • Appendix I does not state the deleted specialty’s title.
  • The rule does not establish one universal successor to SSN 628; its Rifleman (SSN 745) example illustrates the coding rule rather than naming a replacement.
Source extraction notes

Appendix I deletes SSN 628 but provides no explicit SSN successor code. Printed directive: "(See par. 16b.)" No paragraph reference, ASTP symbol, or generic gun-crewman instruction was inferred into the SSN namespace. The table does not print the deleted specialty title, so the neutral title placeholder is used. The row-level deletion date is unstated. The citation dates Change 2 to 30 June 1945; that publication date is not an effective deletion date.

Source documents (1)

Reviewed September 24, 2026 against references 1 and 3.

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