---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2165"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2165"
heading: "Relief of retired officer promoted while on active duty"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2165"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 21 — Personnel; Officers"
  - "Subchapter II — Discharges; Retirements; Revocation of Commissions; Separation for Cause"
---

# §2165. Relief of retired officer promoted while on active duty


Any regular officer on the retired list recalled to active duty who during such active duty is advanced to a higher grade under an appointment shall, upon relief from active duty, if his performance of duty under such appointment has been satisfactory, be advanced on the retired list to the highest grade held while on such active duty.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(C), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 189, § 333; renumbered § 2165, 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 333 of this title as this section.