14 USC § 2142 - Regular lieutenants (junior grade); separation for failure of selection for promotion

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title: "14 USC § 2142 - Regular lieutenants (junior grade); separation for failure of selection for promotion"
title_number: 14
title_name: "COAST GUARD"
section_number: "2142"
section_name: "Regular lieutenants (junior grade); separation for failure of selection for promotion"
chapter_number: 21
chapter_name: "PERSONNEL; OFFICERS"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "DISCHARGES; RETIREMENTS; REVOCATION OF COMMISSIONS; SEPARATION FOR CAUSE"
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last_updated: "2026-03-26"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(C), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 184, § 282; amended Pub. L. 94–546, § 1(21), Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2520; renumbered § 2142 and amended Pub. L. 115–282, title I, §§ 112(b), 123(b)(2), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216, 4240.)"
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# § 2142. Regular lieutenants (junior grade); separation for failure of selection for promotion

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.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(C), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 184, § 282; amended Pub. L. 94–546, § 1(21), Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2520; renumbered § 2142 and amended Pub. L. 115–282, title I, §§ 112(b), 123(b)(2), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216, 4240.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—, substituted “section 2101” for “section 211” in introductory provisions.

, renumbered  as this section.

1976— substituted “promotion year” for “fiscal year” in cl. (1).

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Retired Pay on or Prior to September 24, 1963

Savings provisions in  providing that  does not affect the retired pay of anyone retired on or prior to , are set out as a note under .

### Effectiveness of Election, Change, or Revocation of Election of Annuity

Savings provisions in  providing that notwithstanding , 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 .