Marine Corps · SSN history

824 Mess Sergeant

Appendix B lists SSN 824 as Mess Sergeant in the September 1942 regulations and supplements and the June 1944 tentative manual, with SSN 060 suggested as a replacement. This was not an automatic conversion: each individual's qualifications had to be reviewed against the job specifications.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Mess Sergeant

June 1945 is the manual's publication date. The entry gives no effective date for a change from SSN 824.

  • The June 1945 Present Title entry is blank, and the suggested SSN 060 does not establish a fixed replacement for every holder of SSN 824.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the June 1944 tentative-manual column: Mess Sergeant. Suggested conversions/remarks: 060. 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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