---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2319"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2319"
heading: "Critical skill training bonus"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2319"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 23 — Personnel; Enlisted"
---

# §2319. Critical skill training bonus

- (a) The Secretary may provide a bonus, not to exceed $20,000, to an enlisted member who completes training in a skill designated as critical, if at least four years of obligated active service remain on the member’s enlistment at the time the training is completed. A bonus under this section may be paid in a single lump sum or in periodic installments.
- (b) If an enlisted member voluntarily or because of misconduct does not complete the member’s term of obligated active service, the Secretary may require the member to repay the [United States](/usc/14/2941.md?p=4), on a pro rata basis, all sums paid under this section. The Secretary may charge interest on the amount repaid at a rate, to be determined quarterly, equal to 150 percent of the average of the yields on the 91-day Treasury bills auctioned during the calendar quarter preceding the date on which the amount to be repaid is determined.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–293, title II, § 204(a), Aug. 9, 2004, 118 Stat. 1032, § 374; renumbered § 2319, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 113(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4221.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 374 of this title as this section.