Marine Corps · SSN history

199 Section Hand, Railway

SSN 199, titled Section Hand, Railway in AR 615-26 (September 1942 and supplements), was deleted for Marine Corps use. The June 1945 Appendix B entry gives no current title and marks it “None,” meaning no Marine Corps specialty existed, not that a successor was assigned.

Documented history

Section Hand, Railway

No effective deletion date is stated. June 1945 is the manual’s publication date, not an effective end date for SSN 199.

  • Any replacement classification required review of the individual’s qualifications against the manual’s job specifications; no fixed successor is given.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Section Hand, Railway. Suggested conversions/remarks: None. 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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