Marine Corps · SSN history

987 ASTP Communication Specialist Trainee

SSN 987, associated with the earlier title “ASTP Communication Specialist Trainee,” was deleted for Marine Corps use. The instruction “Appropriate SSN” required an individual review of the person's job and qualifications to select a replacement, rather than an automatic conversion to a fixed successor.

Documented history

ASTP Communication Specialist Trainee

No effective deletion date is stated. June 1945 is the manual's publication date, not a dated conversion or cancellation.

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

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: ASTP Communication Specialist 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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