Marine Corps · SSN history

226 Surgical Technician, Veterinary

SSN 226, listed as Surgical Technician, Veterinary in the September 1942 AR 615-26 and its supplements, was deleted for Marine Corps use. Appendix B’s “None” notation means the specialty did not exist in the Marine Corps, and no replacement specialty is named.

Documented history

Surgical Technician, Veterinary

No effective date for the deletion is given. June 1945 is the manual’s publication date, not an established deletion date.

  • Any correction to an individual’s classification required review of the Qualification Card against the manual’s job specifications.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Surgical Technician, Veterinary. 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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