Marine Corps · SSN history

180 Railway Mechanic, General

Appendix B lists SSN 180, Railway Mechanic, General, under AR 615-26 of September 1942 and its supplements, with SSN 046 as a suggested conversion. This was not an automatic replacement: each affected Marine’s Qualification Card had to be reviewed against the job specifications before a replacement specialty was selected.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Railway Mechanic, General

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date; no effective date is given for the suggested conversion.

  • No title is listed for SSN 180 in either the June 1944 tentative-title column or the June 1945 Present Title column.
  • The entry does not establish a fixed transition to SSN 046.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Railway Mechanic, General. Suggested conversions/remarks: 046. 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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