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Demobilization
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Demobilization 

the transfer of armed forces and entire sectors of the national economy from wartime to peacetime status. Demobilization provides at the end of a war for the reduction of the armed forces to regular peacetime forces by disbanding troop units, headquarters, installations, and institutions formed during wartime, the discharge of surplus personnel into the reserve, and the return to the national economy of property confiscated during mobilization.
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When he was demobbed he decided to join the police and enlisted in 1953 in Huddersfield.
Harry Sharp; 'Gentleman' police officer by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
I suffer for this now, but when I was demobbed after about three years abroad I came back by desert-truck to France.
Pen points by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
He was working as a signalman on the railways after being demobbed from the Army, while Vi, who is originally from Edinburgh, was working as a waitress during the summer.
60 years of wedded bliss by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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