Marine Corps · SSN history

247 Typist

Appendix B lists SSN 247 as “Typist” under AR 615-26, September 1942 and supplements, and suggests SSN 405 as a possible replacement. This was not an automatic conversion: each affected Marine’s qualifications had to be reviewed against the job specifications.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Typist

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date; no effective date is given for the suggested change from SSN 247.

  • No title is listed for SSN 247 in the June 1944 tentative-title or June 1945 Present Title columns.
  • The entry does not establish that any individual Marine was actually reassigned to SSN 405.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Typist. Suggested conversions/remarks: 405. 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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