to save the people from decommissioning
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Really! After they are decommissioned, are the taken to the salvage yards?
déclassement
1. [de terres, terrain] reclassification
2. [de véhicules, matériel] decommissioning
3. (Railways) change of class
I wondered about that, too. At first it looked like a typical auto-translation error, but the original looks funky as well. Could be a slang term like "cancel," which has a special meaning only to fans of "La Femme Nikita."
I think here it means loss or lowering of social status.