Army · SSN history

876 Title not stated in source

SSN 876 was deleted with a reference to paragraph 16b, which prescribed conditional instructor coding rather than one universal replacement. Instructors normally used the SSN for the specialty they taught, with “(Instructor)” added to the specialty title.

Documented history

Title not stated in source

30 June 1945 is the publication date of Change 2, not an established deletion date for SSN 876. The deletion date is not stated.

  • For personnel permanently assigned to instructional duty who lacked qualification in a specialty related to the course, paragraph 16b authorized Technical Instructor (SSN 659) if highly skilled, or Basic (SSN 521) if they had no military occupational specialty.
  • The deleted specialty title is not stated in Appendix I.
Source extraction notes

Appendix I deletes SSN 876 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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