33 USC § 3025 - Length of service for promotion purposes

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identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s3025"
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title: "33 USC § 3025 - Length of service for promotion purposes"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "3025"
section_name: "Length of service for promotion purposes"
chapter_number: 43
chapter_name: "NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION COMMISSIONED OFFICER CORPS"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "APPOINTMENT AND PROMOTION OF OFFICERS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 107–372, title II, § 225, Dec. 19, 2002, 116 Stat. 3085.)"
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# § 3025. Length of service for promotion purposes

**(a)** **General rule** Each officer shall be assumed to have, for promotion purposes, at least the same length of service as any other officer below that officer on the lineal list.

**(b)** **Exception** Notwithstanding subsection (a), an officer who has lost numbers shall be assumed to have, for promotion purposes, no greater service than the officer next above such officer in such officer’s new position on the lineal list.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 107–372, title II, § 225, Dec. 19, 2002, 116 Stat. 3085.)

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