reblueing
n.— «There is also a program in place which allows us to rotate formations out of the battle space for what is called reblueing and retraining. And there are no forces right now inside our area of responsibility that are scheduled in the near-term to rotate out.» —“DoD Special News Briefing with Colonel Burton from the Pentagon Briefing Studio, Arlington, Virginia” by J.B. Burton U.S. Department of Defense Mar. 16, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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