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Title 14 — Coast GuardRelease 119-73not60

§2142 Regular Lieutenants (junior Grade); Separation for Failure of Selection for Promotion

Title 14 › Subtitle SUBTITLE II— PERSONNEL › Chapter 21— PERSONNEL; OFFICERS › Subchapter II— DISCHARGES; RETIREMENTS; REVOCATION OF COMMISSIONS; SEPARATION FOR CAUSE › § 2142

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Regular Coast Guard officers appointed under section 2101 who are lieutenant (junior grade) and fail selection for promotion to lieutenant a second time must be honorably discharged on June 30 of that promotion year. They can ask to be discharged earlier and keep the benefits they would have had on June 30. If they are eligible for retirement under any law on the discharge date, they will be retired instead.

Full Legal Text

Title 14, §2142

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Each officer of the Regular Coast Guard appointed under section 2101 of this title who is serving in the grade of lieutenant (junior grade) and who has failed of selection for promotion to the grade of lieutenant for the second time, shall:
(1)be honorably discharged on June 30 of the promotion year in which his second failure of selection occurs; or
(2)if he so requests, be honorably discharged at an earlier date without loss of benefits that would accrue if he were discharged on that date under clause (1); or
(3)if, on the date specified for his discharge in this section, he is eligible for retirement under any law, be retired on that date.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282, § 123(b)(2), substituted “section 2101” for “section 211” in introductory provisions. Pub. L. 115–282, § 112(b), renumbered section 282 of this title as this section. 1976—Pub. L. 94–546 substituted “promotion year” for “fiscal year” in cl. (1).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Retired Pay on or Prior to September 24, 1963

Savings Provision

s in section 5(g) of Pub. L. 88–130 providing that Pub. L. 88–130 does not affect the retired pay of anyone retired on or prior to Sept. 24, 1963, are set out as a note under section 2101 of this title. Effectiveness of Election, Change, or Revocation of Election of Annuity

Savings Provision

s in section 5(h) of Pub. L. 88–130 providing that notwithstanding section 1431 of Title 10, Armed Forces, an election, change or revocation thereof affecting an annuity, by an officer retired under this section, is effective if made prior to the first day of the third month following September 1963, are set out as a note under section 2101 of this title.

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14 U.S.C. § 2142

Title 14 — Coast Guard

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

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