Marine Corps · SSN history

898 Radio Inspector

Appendix B lists SSN 898, Radio Inspector, under AR 615-26 of September 1942 and its supplements, with suggested substitutions of 174, 648, 649, 759, 774 and 775. These were alternatives requiring review of each Marine’s Qualification Card against the job specifications, not an automatic split into six successor specialties.

Codes named in this history

Other history records

These source identifiers have archive pages. Their availability does not establish current service use or retirement.

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Radio Inspector

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date. No effective date for a change to SSN 898 is stated.

  • The June 1944 tentative title and June 1945 Present Title entries are blank; the entry does not establish a specific cancellation, rename or fixed replacement.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Radio Inspector. Suggested conversions/remarks: 174, 648, 649, 759, 774, 775. 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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