Marine Corps · SSN history

986 ASTP Electrical Engineering Trainee

SSN 986, listed as “ASTP Electrical Engineering Trainee” under AR 615-26 of September 1942 and its supplements, was deleted for Marine Corps use. The instruction “Appropriate SSN” required individual review of the person’s job and qualifications to select a replacement, not an automatic conversion to a fixed successor.

Documented history

ASTP Electrical 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 June 1945 Present Title column is blank; the trainee title belongs to the earlier classification.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: ASTP Electrical 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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