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§2156 Deferment of Retirement or Separation for Medical Reasons

Title 14 › SUBTITLE II — PERSONNEL › CHAPTER 21 — PERSONNEL; OFFICERS › SUBCHAPTER II — DISCHARGES; RETIREMENTS; REVOCATION OF COMMISSIONS; SEPARATION FOR CAUSE › § 2156

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may delay a commissioned officer’s retirement or separation (not a commissioned warrant officer) when the officer needs hospitalization, medical observation, or other disability processing that cannot be finished before the scheduled retirement or separation date. The delay can only happen if the officer agrees. If the officer sends a written notice withdrawing that agreement, the delay must end no later than 60 days after the Secretary gets the notice.

Full Legal Text

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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Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 295 of this title as this section.

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Citation

14 U.S.C. § 2156

Title 14, Coast Guard

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102