---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2707"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2707"
heading: "Protection of uniform"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2707"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 27 — Pay, Allowances, Awards, and Other Rights and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter I — Personnel Rights and Benefits"
---

# §2707. Protection of uniform


The provisions of law relating to the protection of the uniform of the [United States](/usc/14/2941.md?p=4) Army, Navy, or Marine Corps shall apply to the protection of the uniform of the Coast Guard, in the same manner, to the same extent, and under the same conditions.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 533, § 484; renumbered § 2707, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 116(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4226.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 14, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 39 (Aug. 29, 1916, ch. 418, § 1, 39 Stat. 649).

The assimilation is made in general terms, rather than by reference to the applicable section in title 10, U.S.C., 1946 ed. 81st Congress, House Report No. 557.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 484 of this title as this section.