Marine Corps · SSN history

632 Chemical Inspector

Appendix B lists SSN 632 as Chemical Inspector under AR 615-26 of September 1942 and its supplements, with SSN 870 as a suggested conversion. This was not an automatic replacement: each affected Marine’s Qualification Card had to be reviewed against the job specifications before a replacement specialty was assigned.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Chemical Inspector

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date. The entry gives no effective date for a conversion from SSN 632.

  • The June 1944 tentative-title and June 1945 Present Title columns are blank; the entry does not establish a fixed transition to SSN 870.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Chemical Inspector. Suggested conversions/remarks: 870. 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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