Marine Corps · SSN history

702 Crash Boat Operator

Appendix B identifies SSN 702 as Crash Boat Operator in the June 1944 tentative manual and the September 1942 regulation and supplements, with no title entered for June 1945. It suggests SSNs 118 and 564 as alternatives requiring individual qualification review, not an automatic split or fixed replacement.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Crash Boat Operator

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date. The entry gives no effective date for a change to SSN 702.

  • Appendix B covers specialties deleted or fundamentally changed, but this entry does not specify which applied to SSN 702.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the June 1944 tentative-manual column: Crash Boat Operator. Suggested conversions/remarks: 118, 564. 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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