---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 3748"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "3748"
heading: "Type of promotion; temporary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/3748"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Coast Guard Reserve and Auxiliary"
  - "Chapter 37 — Coast Guard Reserve"
  - "Subchapter II — Personnel"
---

# §3748. Type of promotion; temporary


Notwithstanding any other law, if a [Reserve officer](/usc/14/3731.md?p=1) is promoted when the officer’s running mate is promoted and the promotion of the running mate is on a temporary basis, the promotion of the [Reserve officer](/usc/14/3731.md?p=1) is also on a temporary basis. If subsequently the running mate is reverted to a lower grade, other than for reasons of discipline, incompetence, or at the running mate’s request, the [Reserve officer](/usc/14/3731.md?p=1) shall likewise revert to the same lower grade with corresponding precedence.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–322, § 1, Aug. 4, 1980, 94 Stat. 1012, § 737; renumbered § 3748, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 118(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4233.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 790 of this title prior to the complete revision of former chapter 21 of this title by Pub. L. 96–322.

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 737 of this title as this section.