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730 Provost Sergeant

Appendix B lists SSN 730 as Provost Sergeant in the September 1942 material and supplements and the June 1944 tentative manual, with SSN 677 suggested for conversion. This was not an automatic replacement: each affected individual's Qualification Card had to be reviewed against the manual's job specifications.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Provost Sergeant

June 1945 is the manual's publication date. No effective date is given for a change from SSN 730.

  • The June 1945 Present Title column is blank; the entry does not establish a definite cancellation, rename, or fixed replacement.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the June 1944 tentative-manual column: Provost Sergeant. Suggested conversions/remarks: 677. 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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