Marine Corps · SSN history

811 Antitank NCO

The June 1945 manual lists SSN 811, previously titled Antitank NCO, with suggested alternatives of SSN 597 or 610. These were not automatic conversions: each Marine’s Qualification Card had to be reviewed against the job specifications before selecting a replacement.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Antitank NCO

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

  • Antitank NCO appears in both the June 1944 tentative-manual column and the September 1942 regulation-and-supplements column; the June 1945 Present Title column is blank.
  • The entry does not establish a fixed split into SSNs 597 and 610 or specify which alternative applied to an individual Marine.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the June 1944 tentative-manual column: Antitank NCO. Suggested conversions/remarks: 597, 610. 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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