Title not stated in source
30 June 1945 is the publication date of Change 2, not an established deletion date for SSN 879. The deletion date is unstated.
- For personnel permanently assigned to instructional duty who were not qualified in a specialty related to their course, paragraph 16b authorized Technical Instructor (SSN 659) if highly skilled, or Basic (SSN 521) if they had no military occupational specialty.
- Rifleman (SSN 745) illustrates the ordinary instructor coding rule; it is not a stated successor to SSN 879.
- Appendix I does not state the deleted specialty’s title.
Source extraction notes
Appendix I deletes SSN 879 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.
- TM 12-427, Military Occupational Classification of Enlisted Personnel, 12 July 1944, Change 2, 30 June 1945
1. Appendix I, printed p. 149 / PDF p. 217, deleted SSN 879 · source dated June 30, 1945 · cited by the explanation
PDF page 217 (opens in a new tab)2.TM 12-427, Military Occupational Classification of Enlisted Personnel, 12 July 1944, Change 2, 30 June 1945 · event transcription · docs/legacy-data/army-ssn-1944.jsonl:337; Appendix I, printed p. 149 / PDF p. 217, deleted SSN 879
PDF page 217 (opens in a new tab)3.TM 12-427, Section I paragraph 16b (audited two-column transcription) · Section I, paragraph 16b; cached text lines 2654-2667 continued in the right column at 2615-2626 · cited by the explanation
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