Marine Corps · SSN history

238 Lineman, Telephone and Telegraph

Appendix B lists SSN 238, “Lineman, Telephone and Telegraph,” under the earlier 1942 and June 1944 titles and suggests SSN 641 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 the appropriate classification was assigned.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Lineman, Telephone and Telegraph

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date; no effective date for a change from SSN 238 is given.

  • The June 1945 Present Title column is blank for SSN 238, and the entry does not establish a fixed transition to SSN 641.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the June 1944 tentative-manual column: Lineman, Telephone and Telegraph. Suggested conversions/remarks: 641. 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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