---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 1947"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "1947"
heading: "Assignment of personnel as instructors"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/1947"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 19 — Coast Guard Academy"
  - "Subchapter III — Faculty"
---

# §1947. Assignment of personnel as instructors


The Commandant may assign any member to appropriate instruction duty at the Academy.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 510, § 192; Pub. L. 98–557, § 15(a)(3)(H), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2865; renumbered § 1947, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 110(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4212.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 14, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 15i (Apr. 16, 1937, ch. 107, § 8, 50 Stat. 67).

Changes were made in phraseology. 81st Congress, House Report No. 557.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 192 of this title as this section.

1984—Pub. L. 98–557 substituted reference to member for reference to commissioned officer, warrant officer, and enlisted man.