---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 3032"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "3032"
heading: "Service credit as deck officer or junior engineer for promotion purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/3032"
units:
  - "Chapter 43 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps"
  - "Subchapter II — Appointment and Promotion of Officers"
---

# §3032. Service credit as deck officer or junior engineer for promotion purposes


For purposes of promotion, there shall be counted in addition to active commissioned service, service as deck [officer](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-3) or junior engineer.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–372, title II, § 232, Dec. 19, 2002, 116 Stat. 3088.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Provisions similar to this section are contained in section 854a of this title.