Marine Corps · SSN history

625 Officer Candidate

SSN 625, listed as Officer Candidate in the June 1944 tentative manual, was deleted for Marine Corps use. The instruction “Appropriate SSN” required individual review of the person’s job and qualifications to select a replacement, rather than automatic conversion to a fixed successor.

Documented history

Officer Candidate

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date, not an effective date for the deletion. No effective date is given for this change.

Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the June 1944 tentative-manual column: Officer Candidate. Suggested conversions/remarks: Appropriate SSN. Source language is nondeterministic; no single successor is forced. 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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