Marine Corps · SSN history

540 Chief Switchboard Operator, Common Battery

Appendix B lists SSN 540 as “Chief Switchboard Operator, Common Battery” under AR 615-26 of September 1942 and its supplements, with SSN 309 as a suggested conversion. This was not an automatic replacement: each affected Marine’s Qualification Card had to be reviewed against the manual’s job specifications.

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Chief Switchboard Operator, Common Battery

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date, not an effective conversion date. No effective date is given for SSN 540.

  • The June 1945 Present Title column is blank; the entry does not establish a same-code rename or a fixed transition to SSN 309.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Chief Switchboard Operator, Common Battery. Suggested conversions/remarks: 309. The table gives no row-level effective date. June 1945 is the manual publication date, not an effective conversion date.

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Reviewed September 24, 2026 against references 3 and 4.

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