Marine Corps · SSN history

344 Chauffeur

Appendix B identifies SSN 344 as Chauffeur in the June 1944 tentative manual and gives the instruction “Use 345.” This was a suggested substitution requiring review of the Marine’s qualifications against the job specifications, not an automatic conversion to SSN 345.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Chauffeur

June 1945 is the manual’s publication month, not an effective conversion date. No effective date is given for this entry.

  • No June 1945 title is listed for SSN 344; the reference to 345 does not establish that an individual Marine’s specialty was changed.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the June 1944 tentative-manual column: Chauffeur. Suggested conversions/remarks: Use 345. 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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