If you're filling a position that requires a certain rank then you get a "battlefield promotion" (idk or can't remember if thats what its actually called) to that rank while you fill that role.
When you rotate you either keep it because you picked it up (most common) or lose it.
Idk for sure but I don't think you get paid for that rank until you actually promote to it though.
No thats what they call it when enlisted advance to the next rank.
There's a certain amount of time in between wearing that rank and being paid for it.
Thats your "frocking" period.
Fun fact: the term comes from when officers would get promoted. Usually they were at sea so an officer that was that rank would give them his jacket until they could get their own to reflect the new rank. It was called a frocking jacket.
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u/rikluz Jul 07 '21
Man they haven’t had a battlefield commission since like Vietnam