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    "ocrText": "CONFIDENTIAL\nFrancis D. Flanagan, Esquire\nSeptember 20, 1950\nPage two - continued\nYou will note that the chart covering the separation\nof civilians is confined to several months in 1950. Unfortun-\nately, the previous manner of record-keeping for civilians does\nnot readily disclose the reason for their separation, and any\nstudy designed to cover the period January 1947 to date in this\nfield would be most time-consuming and very expensive. For ex-\nample, the Air Force, alone, would be required to examine some\nsix hundred thousand files. In addition, any information thus\ncollected would be somewhat unreliable, since the records would\nprobably not reflect, in every case, the reason for the separa-\ntion of a particular individual.\nHowever, in connection with the figures on civilians,\nI would like to point out that the figures for the Office of the\nSecretary of Defense are complete and represent the total separa-\ntions since the institution of that Office in September 1947.\nFor your convenience, I am setting forth below a sum-\nmary of the figures which appear on both charts:\nBased on the limitations expressed above, the total\nseparations, both military and civilian, since January 1947 are\n3,687. Of this number, 42 are civilians. The total military\nseparations due to General Court Martial are 432, while the total\nseparations as a result of action other than General Court Martial\nare 3,213.\nDECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402\nDOD Directive 5100.30, June 18, 1979\nCONFIDENTIAL\nBy NLT- HC NARS, Date 5-10-12"
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