Marine Corps · SSN history

293 Chemical Engineer

Appendix B lists SSN 293 as Chemical Engineer under AR 615-26, September 1942 and supplements, and suggests SSN 411 for conversion. This was not an automatic replacement: each affected Marine’s Qualification Card had to be reviewed against the manual’s job specifications.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Chemical Engineer

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date. No effective date is given for a change from SSN 293 to SSN 411.

  • The June 1945 Present Title column is blank; the entry does not establish that Chemical Engineer remained a current Marine Corps specialty.
  • The suggested conversion does not establish that any individual Marine was assigned SSN 411.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Chemical Engineer. Suggested conversions/remarks: 411. 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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