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658 Link Trainer Instructor

Change 1 directed that Link Trainer Instructor (SSN 658) be changed to Synthetic Trainer Operator-Instructor (Designated Type) (SSN 970). The later deleted-specialty list records 658 as deleted, with 970 as its suggested substitute.

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Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Link Trainer Instructor

The replacement instruction appears in Change 1, dated 12 April 1945, and the deletion list appears in Change 2, dated 30 June 1945. Neither passage gives a separate effective date for the change, so 1945 is not an established effective deletion year.

Source extraction notes

Appendix I lists deleted SSN 658 with suggested substitute 970. Appendix I does not print titles. The title is documented elsewhere in TM 12-427: Change 1, 12 April 1945, PDF page 5; instruction for printed page 84. 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 23, 2026 against references 3 and 1.

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