Marine Corps · SSN history

040 Automobile Body Repairman

Appendix B identifies SSN 040 as Automobile Body Repairman under AR 615-26 of September 1942 and its supplements, and lists SSN 172 as a suggested conversion. Assignment to SSN 172 depended on reviewing the individual's Qualification Card against the manual's job specifications, not an automatic conversion.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Automobile Body Repairman

June 1945 is the manual's publication month, not an effective conversion date; no effective date is given for this entry.

  • The June 1945 Present Title column is blank for SSN 040; the entry does not establish a definite cancellation, rename, or fixed successor.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Automobile Body Repairman. Suggested conversions/remarks: 172. The table gives no row-level effective date. June 1945 is the manual publication date, not an effective conversion date.

Source documents (1)

Reviewed September 24, 2026 against references 3 and 4.

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