muster out
End active duty
Muster out is to discharge from military service: He was mustered out after the war ended.
The term comes from muster, the formal assembly of troops for inspection or roll call—mustering out is the final such assembly before separation.
The opposite is muster in.
- demobRelease from military service
- honorable dischargeSatisfactory military service completion
- dischargeRelease of substance outward
- walking papersInformal dismissal notice
- civilianizationConverting to nonmilitary management
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