Title 14 — Coast GuardRelease 119-73not60
§2156 Deferment of Retirement or Separation for Medical Reasons
Title 14 › Subtitle SUBTITLE II— PERSONNEL › Chapter 21— PERSONNEL; OFFICERS › Subchapter II— DISCHARGES; RETIREMENTS; REVOCATION OF COMMISSIONS; SEPARATION FOR CAUSE › § 2156
Summary
The Secretary may delay a commissioned officer’s retirement or separation (not a commissioned warrant officer) when medical exams or disability processing need hospital care or observation that can’t finish before the scheduled date. The officer must agree. If consent is withdrawn in writing, the delay ends within 60 days after the Secretary gets that notice.
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Title 14, §2156
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(a)Subject to subsection (b), the Secretary may defer the retirement or separation of a commissioned officer, other than a commissioned warrant officer, if the evaluation of the physical condition of the officer and determination of the officer’s entitlement to retirement or separation for physical disability require hospitalization, medical observation, or other physical disability processing that cannot be completed before the date on which the officer would otherwise be retired or separated.
(b)A deferment under subsection (a)—
(1)may only be made with the consent of the officer involved; and
(2)if the Secretary receives written notice from the officer withdrawing that consent, shall end not later than the end of the sixty-day period beginning on the date the Secretary receives that notice.
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14 U.S.C. § 2156
Title 14 — Coast Guard
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60