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Old 04-10-09, 16:49
Rob MacDonald Rob MacDonald is offline
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Acting rank is a temporary rank assigned to a person who is performing the duties normally performed by someone of higher rank. He receives pay and conditions appropriate to the higher rank.
I remember 'acting' positions as being temporary appointments to fill a temp. vacancy, but with no increase in pay.

'Lance Corporal' has been described as the worst job in the Army (to which I can personally attest - there is a short sharp learning-curve!), and although the posn of 'L/Sgt' was extinct by my day I understood it to be a probationary position that the soldier could be 'reduced' from without stigma if he proved unequal to the task.

At least that's how it was in the Seaforths.
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