---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2702"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2702"
heading: "Training"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2702"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 27 — Pay, Allowances, Awards, and Other Rights and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter I — Personnel Rights and Benefits"
---

# §2702. Training


The Coast Guard may make expenditures for the training of personnel, including books, school supplies, correspondence courses, motion picture equipment, and other equipment for instructional purposes.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 531, § 469; renumbered § 2702, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 116(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4226.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on the following language contained in the Coast Guard appropriation act for 1949, “Pay and Allowances” and preceding years: “motion picture and other equipment for instructional purposes; . . . training of enlisted personnel, including textbooks, school supplies, and correspondence courses;” (June 19, 1948, 62 Stat. 562).

Changes were made in phraseology. 81st Congress, House Report No. 557.

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2702 was renumbered section 4902 of this title.

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 469 of this title as this section.