repo depot
World War II US military slang for a replacement depot — the staging areas where soldiers waited to be reassigned to units after recovering from wounds, completing training, or arriving in-theater.
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World War II US military slang for a replacement depot — the staging areas where soldiers waited to be reassigned to units after recovering from wounds, completing training, or arriving in-theater. The rhyming nickname ('repo-depot') made the often frustrating, bureaucratic experience of waiting at these centers slightly more bearable through humor. Soldiers stuck at a repo depot were in limbo, processed and reassigned in often impersonal conditions. The rhyme gave something grim a darkly comic name.
After recovering from his injury, he spent two weeks at a repo depot before getting his new assignment.
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(military slang) A replacement depot.
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