Marine Corps · SSN history

539 Field Artillery NCO

Appendix B recommends SSN 603 for the June 1944 specialty SSN 539, Field Artillery NCO, subject to review of the Marine’s Qualification Card against the job specifications rather than automatic conversion. The suggestions marked with a single asterisk belong to the separate earlier title Chief of Section, Gun, not to Field Artillery NCO.

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Field Artillery NCO

June 1944 identifies the tentative manual containing the earlier title. June 1945 is the publication date of the manual recommending reclassification; no effective date or completion deadline is stated.

  • The June 1945 Present Title column is blank for SSN 539, so it does not establish a continuing title or a same-code rename.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the June 1944 tentative-manual column: Field Artillery NCO. Suggested conversions/remarks, as printed: *601, *603, *606, *845, *864, **603. The double-asterisk suggestions apply to Field Artillery NCO; the single-asterisk suggestions apply to the separate AR 615-26 title Chief of Section, Gun. Only the double-asterisk alternatives are assigned to this event. These are suggested reclassifications subject to individual Qualification Card and job-specification review, not automatic or present-day equivalents. The table gives no row-level calendar effective date. June 1945 is the manual publication date, not an inferred individual conversion date.

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Reviewed September 24, 2026 against references 3 and 4.

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