Getting "frocked"?

I have heard of monks getting de-frocked, but never soldiers getting frocked.
Prolly better getting frocked than fragged.

This site seems to explain it pretty well:

http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/blnavyfrocking.htm

Hey thanks, mac!

I'm guessing that the army uses the term in the same way that the navy does.




This, in particular sounds like his situation. They don't let him wear the uniform but he has assumed the duties without the actual promotion.

It sounds like the word deals with the clergy too - I wonder if they call it getting "frocked" when they receive their orders (is that the right term?)?

Yep, 477 hits for "getting frocked" on google - most seem to be military references.

If he's assumed the duties without a concomitant pay raise, Boomerang, he's gotten more than frocked.

Ha! You could be right JTT.

I think promotions can be in the pipeline for a while before they actually take place.

<I thought everyone knew that frock/frocking had to do with clothing. You learn something new here every single blinkin' day>

Is that your tatoo in your avatar ?

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The Royal Navy did something similar in the era of wooden sailing ships. The rank of Commodore (which is now a permanent rank between Captain and Rear-Admira), was then a temporary appointment; the Navy would make up a flotilla for a specific mission and appoint a captain Commodore of it for as long as it took to do the job. In effect he was a temporary admiral. The Navy found this device very handy as promotion to admiral was based strictly on seniority, and there was no other way to put talented junior men in command.

The rank of Brigadier was used similarly in the British Army at the same time, to make a colonel into a temporary general.