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Coast Guard personnel, notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, may be awarded medals, bars, emblems, or insignia to which such personnel may be entitled under other provisions of law.
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**(a) General Powers.—** The Secretary is authorized to confer or impose upon the Commandant any of the rights, privileges, powers, or duties, in respect to the administration of the Coast Guard, vested in or imposed upon the Secretary by this title or other provisions of law. **(b) Delegation.—** The Secretary may promulgate such regulations and orders as he deems appropriate to carry out the provisions of this title or any other law applicable to the Coast Guard.
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The President, under regulations to be prescribed by him, may award a decoration called the “Legion of Merit”, having suitable appurtenances and devices and not more than four degrees, to any member of the armed forces of the United States or of any friendly foreign nation who, after September 8, 1939, has distinguished himself by exceptionally meritorious conduct in performing outstanding services.
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Page 180 TITLE 14—COAST GUARD § 2745 of the United States, or was from a vessel owned or op- erated by the United States regardless of where the res- cue took place; and if the rescue took place within wa- ters of the United States the award could be made to an alien. The existing law relating to the Treasury Depart- ment Life-Saving Medal contained in title 14, U.S.C., 1946, ed., §§ 192–196, has long needed revision. The exist- ing law is composed of a series of statutes enacted sepa- rately between 1874 and 1897, and the result has not been entirely unsatisfactory. The original statute, en- acted in 1874 (title 14, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 193), provided for Life-saving medals of the first and second class to be bestowed ‘‘upon any persons who shall hereafter en- danger their own lives in saving, or endeavoring to save lives from the perils of the sea, within the United States, or upon any American vessel’’. The medal of the first class was confined to cases of ‘‘extreme and heroic daring’’ and the medal of the second class was to be awarded ‘‘in cases not sufficiently distinguished to de- serve the medal of the first class’’ Then in 1878 another act was passed (title 14, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 194) author- izing the bestowal of the medal of the second class ‘‘upon persons making such signal exertions in rescuing and succoring the shipwrecked, and saving persons from drowning’’ as, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, merited recognition. These two sections were construed by the Attorney General to be limited to the rescue of persons who were subjected to the per- ils of the sea in any waters of the United States in the vicinity of any lifeboat station, life-saving station, or house of refuge. And the person upon whom the medal could be bestow
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