Marine Corps · SSN history

553 Airplane Electrical Shop Chief

Appendix B identifies SSN 553 as Airplane Electrical Shop Chief under AR 615-26 (September 1942 and supplements) and suggests SSN 685 as a possible replacement. This was not an automatic conversion: each affected Qualification Card had to be reviewed against the job specifications before a replacement was selected.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Airplane Electrical Shop Chief

June 1945 is the manual's publication date; no effective date for a change from SSN 553 is given.

  • The June 1944 and June 1945 title columns are blank; the entry does not establish a fixed transition to SSN 685.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Airplane Electrical Shop Chief. Suggested conversions/remarks: 685. 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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