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separation center

noun

  1. a place at which military personnel are processed for release from active service.


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Becchetti was discharged on Sept. 23 – at 7:10 p.m. to be exact – at the Fort Bliss Separation Center in El Paso, Texas.

Civilians near the West Coast “separation centers,” where soldiers and sailors were being relieved from active duty, enthusiastically opened their homes to the new and soon-to-be veterans, while many of the 50,000 men and women awaiting discharge from points along the Eastern Seaboard were required to have Christmas dinner at the separation center itself, or sometimes even on the ships which had just brought them there.

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Even recently minted veterans unfortunate enough to still be in route between their separation center and home on Christmas were cheerful about their holiday circumstances.

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As he was on leave, working to catch up with family and friends, courting his soon-to-be wife, Violet Sasso, and building a career, he was ordered to a separation center in San Pedro, California, to be released from active duty.

Zwicker, commander of the separation center where Peress was discharged, pointed out that a presidential directive prohibited him from revealing some details of such an Army loyalty case.

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