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$ echo $VAR1 | sed 's/.//;s/[0-9]\([0-9]\{2\}\)$/\1/'
SOMETHING03
$ echo $VAR2 | sed 's/.//;s/[0-9]\([0-9]\{2\}\)$/\1/'
OTHERTHING04

If you're using a 1993 or later version of the Korn shell:
#!/bin/ksh
VAR1="ISOMETHING103"
VAR2="COTHERTHING04"
printf "Initial VAR1=\"%s\", VAR2=\"%s\"\n" "$VAR1" "$VAR2"
VAR1=${VAR1/?/}...

echo "ISOMETHING103" | awk ' {
match ($0, /^[A-Z]*/)
printf substr($0, RSTART + 1, RLENGTH - 1)
match ($0, /[0-9]*$/)
print (RLENGTH >= 3 ? substr($0, RSTART + 1)...

other awk
echo ${VAR1:1} | awk '{l=length($0);m=match($0,/[0-9]/)} {if (l-m==2) {print substr($0, 1,m-1)substr($0, m+1,2)} else {print}}'