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14 U.S.C. § 2156 — Deferment of retirement or separation for medical reasons
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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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**(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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**(a)** An officer on the active duty promotion list becomes eligible for consideration for promotion to the next higher grade at the beginning of the promotion year in which he completes the following amount of service computed from his date of rank in the grade in which he is serving:
(1) two years in the grade of lieutenant (junior grade);
(2) three years in the grade of lieutenant;
(3) four years in the grade of lieutenant commander;
(4) four years in the grade of commander; and
(5) three years in the grade of captain.
**(b)** For the purpose of this section, service in a grade includes all qualifying service in that grade or a higher grade, under either a temporary or permanent appointment. However, service in a grade under a temporary service appointment under [section 2125 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2125&num=0&edition=prelim) is considered as service only in the grade that the officer concerned would have held had he not been so appointed.
**(c)** No officer may become eligible for consideration for promotion until all officers of his grade senior to him are so eligible.
**(d)** Except when his name is on a list of selectees, each officer who becomes eligible for consideration for promotion to the next higher grade remains eligible so long as he—
(1) continues on active duty; and
(2) is not promoted to that grade.
**(e)** An officer whose involuntary retirement or separation is deferred under [section 2156 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2156&num=0&edition=prelim) is not eligible for consideration for promotion to the next higher grade during the period of that deferment.
**(f)** The Secretary may waive subsection (a) to the exten
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TITLE 14—COAST GUARD
§ 2159
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 293 of this
title as this section.
§ 2155. Retirement for physical disability after se-
lection for promotion; grade in which retired
An officer whose name appears on an approved
list of officers selected for promotion to the next
higher grade and who is retired for physical dis-
ability under the provisions of chapter 61 of title
10 prior to being promoted shall be retired in the
grade to which he was selected for promotion.
(Added Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(C), Sept. 24, 1963, 77
Stat. 187, § 294; renumbered § 2155, Pub. L. 115–282,
title I, § 112(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 294 of this
title as this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
RETIRED PAY ON OR PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 24, 1963
Savings provisions in section 5(g) of Pub. L. 88–130
providing that Pub. L. 88–130 does not affect the retired
pay of anyone retired on or prior to Sept. 24, 1963, are
set out as a note under section 2101 of this title.
§ 2156. Deferment of retirement or separation for
medical reasons
(a) Subject to subsection (b), the Secretary
may defer the retirement or separation of a
commissioned officer, other than a commis-
sioned warrant officer, if the evaluation of the
physical condition of the officer and determina-
tion of the officer’s entitlement to retirement or
separation for physical disability require hos-
pitalization, medical observation, or other phys-
ical disability processing that cannot be com-
pleted 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 in
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