Marine Corps · SSN history

962 Optical Instrument Specialist (DO)

Appendix B lists SSN 962 as “Optical Instrument Specialist (DO)” under AR 615-26, September 1942 and supplements, and suggests SSN 686 as a possible replacement. This was not an automatic conversion: each affected Marine’s Qualification Card had to be reviewed against the job specifications.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Optical Instrument Specialist (DO)

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date; no effective date for a change from SSN 962 is stated.

  • The June 1944 tentative-title and June 1945 Present Title entries are blank, so the earlier title is not established as a current June 1945 designation.
  • The entry does not establish a completed conversion to SSN 686.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Optical Instrument Specialist (DO). Suggested conversions/remarks: 686. 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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