Marine Corps · SSN history

138 Motorcycle Mechanic

Appendix B identifies SSN 138 as Motorcycle Mechanic in the earlier classifications and suggests SSN 014 as a possible replacement. This was not an automatic conversion: each affected Marine’s Qualification Card had to be reviewed against the job specifications before assigning the appropriate specialty.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Motorcycle Mechanic

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date, not an effective conversion date; no effective date is given for SSN 138.

  • No June 1945 title is listed for SSN 138, and the entry does not establish a fixed replacement for every Marine holding it.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the June 1944 tentative-manual column: Motorcycle Mechanic. Suggested conversions/remarks: 014. 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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