Acting, serious, local - words that mean nothing to Mr Civvy and less to a promotion hungry/expectant soldier.
It is only in WAR that the Forces can use prolonged local cum acting rank. During WWII the majority of all ranks above private and below Lieutenant were acting ranks. Immediately on discharge their ranks were recorded and gazetted as private. It is hard to explain that this archane ranking structure but even in light of monetary restictions it should be abolished. It takes a strange personality to say to the Major Blimp across the table that unless they are serious about promoting one, then they should continue doing their duty as the rank paid for.
That was then, this is now and it shows what heroes are worth. £20 less than very little.
THE widow of a hero sergeant has been told to live off a corporal's pension -
to save the nation £20 a week.
Dated MoD regulations allow Sgt Matty Telford's pension to be slashed because
he served in the rank for less than a year.
Read more at www.thesun.co.uk
And if it wasn't for Matty's promotion, the Grenadier Guardsman, 37, would
probably not have been at a Helmand checkpoint five months later in November
when an Afghan cop shot dead five soldiers.
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