Crossword clues for detrain
detrain
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Detrain \De*train"\, v. i. & t.
To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.
[Eng.]
--London Graphic.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context rail transport intransitive English) To exit from a train; to disembark 2 (context rail transport transitive English) to remove a passenger or passengers from a train; to evacuate passengers from a train. 3 (context of an athlete English) to reduce one's training, particularly during the offseason, in preparation for a cycle of retraining.
WordNet
v. leave a train
Usage examples of "detrain".
Yet when I returned home from overseas, I found that rather than spend the time and expense to detrain the dogs, our military had begun to destroy them.
Our program of deindoctrination was overwhelmingly successful: out of the 549 dogs that returned from the war, only 4 could not be detrained and returned to civilian life.
Gors, that established the war dog detraining program, one of the most important documents in the long history of the dogs in the U.
The dogs deserved the chance to respond to a program of detraining aimed at preparing them for a return to civilian life.
I said I would not sign a death certificate for one of our veteran dogs unless, after an extensive detraining program, the dog had proven incorrigible and a danger to civilian society.
What follows is an exact copy of the memorandum establishing the war dog detraining program, one of the most important documents in the long history of dogs in the United States military: WAR DOG TRAINING SCHOOL SCHOOLS REGIMENT, MARINE TRAINING COMMAND CAMP LEJEUNE, NORTH CAROLINA 27 August 1945 SCHOOL MEMORANDUM Re: WAR DOG detraining AND SEPARATION.
Effective Monday 27 August 1945, the War Dog Training School will initiate a detraining program for all Marine War Dogs so that they may be suitable for return to civilian life.
All personnel will divert their energy and experience to a successful detraining and rehabilitation program so that the Marine War Dogs of World War II will continue to be regarded with the sincere high respect and admiration for their valorous and heroic deeds which they have contributed to the defeat of the enemy of the United Nations.
By November 1945, most of the dogs that were at Camp Lejeune at the end of the war had been successfully detrained and sent home.
At this point, Lieutenant Barnowsky arrived with the 2nd War Dog Platoon from Japan and took over the detraining of the dogs, becoming, since Henderson had now left, director of dog training.
Soon after the end of the Second World War, many canine behaviorists said that all military dogs had been destroyed because it was not possible to detrain dogs after military service to the extent that they would be safe for return to civilian life.
Our dogs were not destroyed: they were detrained and successfully returned to civilian life.
It was animal abuse at its worst, made more infuriating by the ludicrous claims of specialists that the dogs could not be safely detrained.
It permits handlers to detrain and adopt their dogs when their military usefulness has ended.
Paris occupying berth in same carriage with Lorgnes, but detrained Laroche six-fifteen, murder remaining undiscovered till arrival in Paris.