Marine Corps · SSN history

253 Water Supply Foreman

Appendix B lists SSN 253 as Water Supply Foreman under AR 615-26 of September 1942 and its supplements, with SSN 727 as a suggested conversion. This was not an automatic replacement: each affected Marine’s qualifications had to be reviewed against the job specifications before selecting the appropriate specialty.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Water Supply Foreman

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

  • No title is listed for SSN 253 in either the June 1944 tentative-title column or the June 1945 Present Title column.
  • The entry does not establish that any individual Marine was converted to SSN 727.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Water Supply Foreman. Suggested conversions/remarks: 727. 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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