Posted: 9/3/2015 9:24:56 AM EDT
What does GAAM stand for? I'm restoring my house and found this label on a board that looks like it used to be part of a crate and I was curious what I could find out about it. Also is the 214 a ship hull number?
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Well, some google searching found this page.
http://bluejacket.com/usn-usmc_ww2_location-codes.html Locations appeared as postal code abbreviations during World War II in order to keep unit locations classified. Example: BM3/c John Paul Jones USNR NavAdvBase 131 FPO SF Jones is located at the Naval Advanced Base at Noumea, New Caledonia. The Fleet Post Office (FPO) for the Pacific region is located in San Francisco, California. The Fleet Post Office (FPO) for the Atlantic region is located in New York, New York. ... 214 NY Port Lyautey, French Morocco, Africa ... ETA: Guessing the number would shift around over time, but that might be a hint for the format. Unsure how relevant it is to that particular artifact. Another possible resource: http://www.militaryphs.org/publications.html Still don't know what "GAAM" is. |
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Interesting, I don't know the navy used location codes for bases and didn't think to search for that. I can't find any reference to GAAM either. The only thing I can think of is it's some kind of unit abbreviation. I'm not yet sure if the location codes bit pertains to your artifact, and my search for "GAAM" has still borne no fruit. But - turns out the Naval History and Heritage Command has a public inquiries line, so I called and asked about it. Should have more data soon, seems they have a process for answering questions like this. |
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GAAM: Government Auditing and Accounting Manual
The good LtCol has made himself a box that explains how to fill out DD214's, and that manual is packed in that crate. It goes to FPO, AE for shipping, and I'm guessing that's a VERY old scrap of paper. He's a personnel officer in charge of processing outgoing discharges? Find some more stuff in the house and give us more clues. |
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GAAM: Government Auditing and Accounting Manual The good LtCol has made himself a box that explains how to fill out DD214's, and that manual is packed in that crate. It goes to FPO, AE for shipping, and I'm guessing that's a VERY old scrap of paper. He's a personnel officer in charge of processing outgoing discharges? Find some more stuff in the house and give us more clues. The guy was an Army Logistics Officer in the China Burma India theater during WW2. http://www.burchardgalleries.com/auctions/2011/mar2011/William_G_Stoddard.htm |
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The guy was an Army Logistics Officer in the China Burma India theater during WW2. http://www.burchardgalleries.com/auctions/2011/mar2011/William_G_Stoddard.htm Quoted:
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GAAM: Government Auditing and Accounting Manual The good LtCol has made himself a box that explains how to fill out DD214's, and that manual is packed in that crate. It goes to FPO, AE for shipping, and I'm guessing that's a VERY old scrap of paper. He's a personnel officer in charge of processing outgoing discharges? Find some more stuff in the house and give us more clues. The guy was an Army Logistics Officer in the China Burma India theater during WW2. http://www.burchardgalleries.com/auctions/2011/mar2011/William_G_Stoddard.htm Nice find! |
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GAAM: Government Auditing and Accounting Manual The good LtCol has made himself a box that explains how to fill out DD214's, and that manual is packed in that crate. It goes to FPO, AE for shipping, and I'm guessing that's a VERY old scrap of paper. He's a personnel officer in charge of processing outgoing discharges? Find some more stuff in the house and give us more clues. The name doesn't fit anything I know about the house and I think the crate may have been addressed to a house two streets over (there was a separate board near by with an address on it) which didn't have any online records with that name. |
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The guy was an Army Logistics Officer in the China Burma India theater during WW2. http://www.burchardgalleries.com/auctions/2011/mar2011/William_G_Stoddard.htm Quoted:
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GAAM: Government Auditing and Accounting Manual The good LtCol has made himself a box that explains how to fill out DD214's, and that manual is packed in that crate. It goes to FPO, AE for shipping, and I'm guessing that's a VERY old scrap of paper. He's a personnel officer in charge of processing outgoing discharges? Find some more stuff in the house and give us more clues. The guy was an Army Logistics Officer in the China Burma India theater during WW2. http://www.burchardgalleries.com/auctions/2011/mar2011/William_G_Stoddard.htm Damn. How you found that I have no idea. I tried searching for him by name and could only find an officer who served in the 1880's. |
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According to this http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a194175.pdf he was assigned to the Military Assistant and Advisory Group (MAAG) maybe the label is a typo.
ETA: STODDARD William Goodnow Jr 023130 B-Mlch 27 May 18 A-MA Tex BSM CR BSUSMA 40 E-C&GS Coll PG Adm Crse Princeton Univ 47 Cadet MA 1 July 36 to 10 June 40 lit AUS 10 Oct 41 to C I AUS 2 Sep 55 RA 21t QMC 11 June 40 to Col 11 June 65 PL 1544 |
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GAAM: Government Auditing and Accounting Manual The good LtCol has made himself a box that explains how to fill out DD214's, and that manual is packed in that crate. It goes to FPO, AE for shipping, and I'm guessing that's a VERY old scrap of paper. He's a personnel officer in charge of processing outgoing discharges? Find some more stuff in the house and give us more clues. The guy was an Army Logistics Officer in the China Burma India theater during WW2. http://www.burchardgalleries.com/auctions/2011/mar2011/William_G_Stoddard.htm Damn. How you found that I have no idea. I tried searching for him by name and could only find an officer who served in the 1880's. I searched for "Lt Col W. G. Stoddard" on bing. It was the first result. 
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According to this http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a194175.pdf he was assigned to the Military Assistant and Advisory Group (MAAG) maybe the label is a typo. ETA: STODDARD William Goodnow Jr 023130 B-Mlch 27 May 18 A-MA Tex BSM CR BSUSMA 40 E-C&GS Coll PG Adm Crse Princeton Univ 47 Cadet MA 1 July 36 to 10 June 40 lit AUS 10 Oct 41 to C I AUS 2 Sep 55 RA 21t QMC 11 June 40 to Col 11 June 65 PL 1544 That's just how the military does things, read it as: Group, Assistant and Advisory. Military. 
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GAAM: Government Auditing and Accounting Manual The good LtCol has made himself a box that explains how to fill out DD214's, and that manual is packed in that crate. It goes to FPO, AE for shipping, and I'm guessing that's a VERY old scrap of paper. He's a personnel officer in charge of processing outgoing discharges? Find some more stuff in the house and give us more clues. The guy was an Army Logistics Officer in the China Burma India theater during WW2. http://www.burchardgalleries.com/auctions/2011/mar2011/William_G_Stoddard.htm Damn. How you found that I have no idea. I tried searching for him by name and could only find an officer who served in the 1880's. I searched for "Lt Col W. G. Stoddard" on bing. It was the first result. Well, fuck google then. |
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GAAM: Government Auditing and Accounting Manual The good LtCol has made himself a box that explains how to fill out DD214's, and that manual is packed in that crate. It goes to FPO, AE for shipping, and I'm guessing that's a VERY old scrap of paper. He's a personnel officer in charge of processing outgoing discharges? Find some more stuff in the house and give us more clues. The guy was an Army Logistics Officer in the China Burma India theater during WW2. http://www.burchardgalleries.com/auctions/2011/mar2011/William_G_Stoddard.htm Damn. How you found that I have no idea. I tried searching for him by name and could only find an officer who served in the 1880's. I searched for "Lt Col W. G. Stoddard" on bing. It was the first result. Well, fuck google then. I normaly use Google but I have Bing on my phone. |
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So we have two contenders:
Contestant #1 is an Army Quartermaster who was in Detroit at one time, where OP has posted from. Contestant #2 Was another Army guy who was an observer/attaché to Portugal (if I read that info right) My idea didn't have much corroborating evidence. Based on what we have so far, do we have enough evidence to make a decision? |
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So we have two contenders: Contestant #1 is an Army Quartermaster who was in Detroit at one time, where OP has posted from. Contestant #2 Was another Army guy who was an observer/attaché to Portugal (if I read that info right) My idea didn't have much corroborating evidence. Based on what we have so far, do we have enough evidence to make a decision? I'm pretty sure they're the same guy, joined the Army in 1940, assigned to Portugal in 1951, and joined TACOM in 1966. Based on the service history the label is from sometime between 1960 and 1965. |