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947 Title not stated in source

Appendix I deleted Army SSN 947 and directed readers to paragraph 16b: instructors generally used the SSN for the specialty they taught, with “Instructor” added in parentheses to the title. For personnel permanently assigned to instruction who lacked qualifications in a specialty related to the course, the rule authorized Technical Instructor (659) if highly skilled, or Basic (521) if they had no military occupational specialty.

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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 947.

  • Appendix I does not state the deleted specialty’s title.
  • The rule does not establish a single successor to SSN 947; its Rifleman (745) example illustrates shared coding, not an unconditional replacement.
Source extraction notes

Appendix I deletes SSN 947 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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