---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2746"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2746"
heading: "Award of other medals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2746"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 27 — Pay, Allowances, Awards, and Other Rights and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter II — Awards"
---

# §2746. Award of other medals


Coast Guard personnel, notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, may be awarded medals, bars, emblems, or insignia to which such personnel may be entitled under other provisions of law.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 537, § 502; renumbered § 2746, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 116(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4226.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

This section insures that the preceding sections are not intended to prevent Coast Guard military personnel from receiving other medals, the legion of merit, for example. 81st Congress, House Report No. 557.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 502 of this title as this section.

### Executive Documents

### Meritorious Service Medal

Medal established as an award for outstanding meritorious achievement or service to the United States, see Ex. Ord. No. 11448, Jan. 16, 1969, 34 F.R. 915, as amended, set out as a note preceding section 1121 of Title 10, Armed Forces.