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953 Radar Repairman, Reporting Equipment

Appendix B identifies SSN 953 as the earlier “Radar Repairman, Reporting Equipment” classification and lists SSN 775 as a suggested conversion. This was not an automatic replacement: each affected Marine’s Qualification Card had to be reviewed against the job specifications.

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Radar Repairman, Reporting Equipment

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

  • The title 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 successor or show that an individual Marine was converted to SSN 775.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the June 1944 tentative-manual column: Radar Repairman, Reporting Equipment. Suggested conversions/remarks: 775. The table gives no row-level effective date. June 1945 is the manual publication date, not an effective conversion date.

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Reviewed September 24, 2026 against references 3 and 4.

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