---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2503"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2503"
heading: "Status of recalled personnel"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2503"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 25 — Personnel; General Provisions"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §2503. Status of recalled personnel


All retired personnel when recalled to active duty shall serve in the grade or rate in which they were serving at the time of retirement.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 524, § 422; Pub. L. 99–348, title II, § 205(b)(10), July 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 700; renumbered § 2503, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 114(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4223.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

This provision is desirable because many enlisted men and low-ranking officers may now retire with higher grade which they previously held on a temporary basis. If recalled in the higher grades, they might not be capable of holding same at the time of recall. 81st Congress, House Report No. 557.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 422 of this title as this section.

1986—Pub. L. 99–348 substituted “rate” for “rating”.