Marine Corps · SSN history

985 ASTP Civil Engineering Trainee

SSN 985, ASTP Civil Engineering Trainee, was deleted for Marine Corps use. The instruction “Appropriate SSN” required an individual review of the Marine’s job and qualifications to select a replacement, rather than automatic conversion to a fixed specialty.

Documented history

ASTP Civil Engineering Trainee

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

  • The trainee title appears in the AR 615-26 column for September 1942 and supplements; the June 1945 Present Title column is blank.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: ASTP Civil Engineering Trainee. Suggested conversions/remarks: Appropriate SSN. Source language is nondeterministic; no single successor is forced. 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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