14 USC § 3755 - Appointment of a former Navy or Coast Guard officer

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identifier: "/us/usc/t14/s3755"
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legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "14 USC § 3755 - Appointment of a former Navy or Coast Guard officer"
title_number: 14
title_name: "COAST GUARD"
section_number: "3755"
section_name: "Appointment of a former Navy or Coast Guard officer"
chapter_number: 37
chapter_name: "COAST GUARD RESERVE"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "PERSONNEL"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(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.)"
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# § 3755. Appointment of a former Navy or Coast Guard officer

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.

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**Source Credit**: (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 Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in  prior to the complete revision of former chapter 21 of this title by .

### Amendments

2018— renumbered  as this section.