Marine Corps · SSN history

737 Rifle NCO

Appendix B identifies SSN 737 as “Rifle NCO” in the June 1944 tentative manual and suggests SSN 745 as a possible replacement. This was not an automatic conversion: each Marine’s Qualification Card had to be reviewed against the job specifications before a replacement was selected.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Rifle NCO

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

  • The June 1945 Present Title column is blank; the entry does not establish a fixed transition to SSN 745.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the June 1944 tentative-manual column: Rifle NCO. Suggested conversions/remarks: 745. 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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