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repple-depple
noun
a replacement depot where soldiers arriving in Vietnam were assigned to units and soldiers leaving Vietnam were processed for homecoming US- When a soldier gets out of an army hospital, he will most likely be thrown into a “repple depple.” This institution, identified in army regulations as a replacement depot, is a sort of clearing house. — Bill Mauldin, Up Front, p. 125, 1945
- “I left my conscience at the repple depple.” — Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back, p. 235, 1949
- “I don’t know why the repple-depple types seemed to think that all a tank is good for is escorting convoys[.]” — Ralph Zumbro, Tank Sergeant, p. 2, 1986
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 183, 1991
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