Marine Corps · SSN history

558 Airplane Instrument Shop Chief

Appendix B identifies SSN 558 as Airplane Instrument Shop Chief under AR 615-26 of September 1942 and its supplements, and suggests SSN 686 as a possible replacement. This was not an automatic conversion: each affected Marine’s Qualification Card had to be reviewed against the job specifications before reassignment.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Airplane Instrument Shop Chief

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date; no effective date is given for the suggested change from SSN 558.

  • The June 1945 Present Title entry is blank, so the earlier title is not established as a current specialty in that manual.
  • The entry does not establish a fixed conversion to SSN 686 or explicitly identify whether SSN 558 was deleted or fundamentally changed.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Airplane Instrument Shop Chief. Suggested conversions/remarks: 686. 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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