Appointment of a former Navy or Coast Guard officer
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Title
14 — Coast Guard
Chapter
STIII/CH37
Release
119-84
Release Date
2026-04-17
Section Text
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A former officer of the Regular Navy or Coast Guard who applies for a Reserve commission within one year of resigning the officer’s Regular commission, and who is appointed in the same grade previously held in the Regular Navy or Coast Guard, shall be given the same date of rank in that grade as that previously assigned to the officer while a member of the Regular Navy or Coast Guard.
(Added Pub. L. 96–322, § 1, Aug. 4, 1980, 94 Stat. 1015, § 744; renumbered § 3755, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 118(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4233.)
Editorial Notes
Prior ProvisionsProvisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 792 of this title prior to the complete revision of former chapter 21 of this title by Pub. L. 96–322.
Amendments2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 744 of this title as this section.
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