---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2157"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2157"
heading: "Flag officers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2157"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 21 — Personnel; Officers"
  - "Subchapter II — Discharges; Retirements; Revocation of Commissions; Separation for Cause"
---

# §2157. Flag officers


During any period in which the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Navy, [section 1216(d) of title 10](/usc/10/1216.md?p=d) does not apply with respect to flag officers of the Coast Guard.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 113–281, title II, § 212(a), Dec. 18, 2014, 128 Stat. 3029, § 296; renumbered § 2157, 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 296 of this title as this section.