Marine Corps · SSN history

177 Radio Operator

Appendix B identifies SSN 177 as Radio Operator under AR 615-26, September 1942 and supplements, and lists SSN 776 as a suggested conversion. This was not an automatic replacement: each affected Marine’s qualifications had to be reviewed against the manual’s job specifications.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Radio Operator

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date. No effective date for a change to SSN 177 is given.

  • The June 1945 Present Title column is blank for SSN 177; the entry does not establish a fixed replacement.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Radio Operator. Suggested conversions/remarks: 776. 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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