---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2127"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2127"
heading: "Recall to active duty during war or national emergency"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2127"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 21 — Personnel; Officers"
  - "Subchapter I — Appointment and Promotion"
---

# §2127. Recall to active duty during war or national emergency


In time of war or national emergency, the Secretary may order any regular officer on the retired list to active duty.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(C), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 189, § 331; renumbered § 2127, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 112(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 331 of this title as this section.

### Executive Documents

### Delegation of Authority

For delegation of authority under this section, as invoked by section 2 of Ex. Ord. No. 13223, Sept. 14, 2001, 66 F.R. 48201, to Secretary of Homeland Security when Coast Guard is not serving as part of Navy, see section 5 of Ex. Ord. No. 13223, set out as a note under section 12302 of Title 10, Armed Forces.