---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2510"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2510"
heading: "Sea service letters"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2510"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 25 — Personnel; General Provisions"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §2510. Sea service letters

- (a) **In General.—** The Secretary shall provide a sea service letter to a member or former member of the Coast Guard who—
  - (1) accumulated sea service on a vessel of the Armed Forces (as such term is defined in [section 527(e)](/usc/14/527.md?p=e)); and
  - (2) requests such letter.
- (b) **Deadline.—** Not later than 30 days after receiving a request for a sea service letter from a member or former member of the Coast Guard under [subsection (a)](#a), the Secretary shall provide such letter to such member or former member if such member or former member satisfies the requirement under [subsection (a)(1)](#a-1).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 113–281, title III, § 305(b)(1), Dec. 18, 2014, 128 Stat. 3044, § 428; renumbered § 2510 and amended Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 114(b), title III, § 318(c), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4223, 4252.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282, § 114(b), renumbered section 428 of this title as this section.

Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 115–282, § 318(c), substituted “Armed Forces” for “armed forces” and “section 527(e)” for “section 101(a) of title 10”.