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		InCityDreams on March 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You cannot have exactly-once delivery (2015) "was field promoted"....could you explain what you mean? To myself, it's always been a military term. As far as 386 pc's etc go....?

sieabahlpark on March 1, 2023 [–]

It literally just means internally promoted

tripa on March 2, 2023 | [–]

There is a certain nuance of “in war time” (as opposed to school time).

It's the case here, but isn't automatic.

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