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December 2023
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Some units had regular “UD [Undesirable Discharge] days, “especially when stockades got overcrowded. An Army lawyer recalled making weekly trips to the stockade, offering an Undesirable Discharge to anyone willing to sign the forms: “They were so eager to get out of jail and out of the Army, we could clean the place out in a day.” Some soldiers never realized what they were signing.

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