The code most likely represents the first letter of his last name followed by the last four digits of his service number. Post oe send me a picture...if I don’t know I can find out.
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From my Army days, that is most likely a laundry mark. The F being the first initial of the soldier’s last name and the last 4 digits of his Army serial number.
a good book to help you with your search is “Finding Your Father’s War” by Jonathan Gawne. http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Your-Fathers-War-Understanding/dp/1932033149
If you have your relative’s name and hopefully birth place as a minimum you can go to the National Archives website: www.archives.gov And from there go to http://www.archives.gov/veterans/ and you can put in a request for his personnel file; please note that nearly 80% of ww2 files were destroyed in a 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO; however many records were partially reconstructed.
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That’s probably the first letter of his last name and last four digits of his social security number.
It is possible that it was the last four numbers of his US or RA serial number, as opposed to his SSAN.
I entered AD in June of '69 and was issued a RA #****4823.
It was used exclusively for a few months, until such time as the SSAN replaced the RA/US/NG/AUS numbers. Prior to that, the SSAN, while a part of your records, was not used as an identifying number for DOD purposes. I do not think it was put on dog tags until about mid-'70's
So, remember that when searching data bases...the number may not match his SSAN, but could match his Service Number (SN).
I still have a pair of OG trousers with the first letter of my last name and the last four numbers of my RA number, stamped onto the small flap that covers the seam at the back of the trousers.
In fact, they're stiff as a board from the starching they received, which common in those days.
Probably dates back to about mid-1970.
Good luck with the search.
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My first thoughts, as later suggested by other posters, it’s a laundry mark.
Last letter initial, then last for of SN.
I recall my RA number to this day, as well as some slogans to go with it, such as he US’s calling us RA = Regular A$$holes.
My favorite in basic was the ER’s & NG’s making fun of us RA’s that we’d all be sent to Vietnam while they were home making out with our women. We got the last laugh, the ER & NG units were activated for RVN duty.