Marine Corps · SSN history

717 Foreman, Oxygen and Acetylene Plant

Appendix B lists SSN 717, Foreman, Oxygen and Acetylene Plant, under AR 615-26 of September 1942 and its supplements, with SSN 719 as a suggested conversion. This was not an automatic conversion: each affected Marine’s qualifications had to be reviewed against the manual’s job specifications.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Foreman, Oxygen and Acetylene Plant

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date; no effective date is given for a change involving SSN 717.

  • The June 1945 Present Title column is blank for SSN 717, and the suggested reference to 719 does not establish a fixed replacement.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Foreman, Oxygen and Acetylene Plant. Suggested conversions/remarks: 719. 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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