Military Terms And Personnel

[dozyrozy]

1 bank employee (7)

Many thanks

[cashier]

Cashier

[aelmpvw]

wonder if that's the first time the answer has been the user name :-)

[Mamyalynne]

The clue you've waited for a long time ;-)

[cashier]

It was a little surreal offering it as an answer.

[fiction-factory]

I'm pretty confident aelmpvw has never been an answer before

[grasscarp]

but if its military why would it be cashier? What about officer as an answer.

[aelmpvw]

'cashier' out of the army

[grasscarp]

Shame on me for not knowing that. My father was a Major in the RE.

[Jackdaw33]

Non-commissioned personnel are dismissed from the service for misconduct. Commissioned officers are 'cashiered'.

[New Judge]

Perhaps a little explanation might not go amiss.

To be “cashiered” is to be dismissed the armed forces for misconduct or misbehaviour. The term is used particularly when describing the dismissal of a commissioned officer. It was, in the past, a degrading and ritual ceremony where the officer’s epaulettes, insignia and medals were torn off, his sword broken and his cap knocked off before the assembled ranks. There are a number of explanations for the term. It is said to originate from the Dutch “casseren” or the French “casser”, both meaning to discharge. However a more likely explanation stems from the days when officers bought their commissions. Part of the sum they paid was a bond held against good behaviour and it was forfeited to the army’s cashiers in the event of their misbehaviour