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[CITE: 14USC497]

 
                          TITLE 14--COAST GUARD
 
                       PART I--REGULAR COAST GUARD
 
   CHAPTER 13--PAY, ALLOWANCES, AWARDS, AND OTHER RIGHTS AND BENEFITS
 
Sec. 497. Honorable subsequent service as condition to award

    No medal of honor, distinguished service medal, distinguished flying 
cross, Coast Guard medal, or emblem, or insignia in lieu thereof shall 
be awarded or presented to any individual, or to the representative of 
any individual, whose entire service subsequent to the time he 
distinguished himself shall not in the opinion of the Commandant have 
been honorable.

(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 536; Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, Sec. 13, 
70A Stat. 624.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    This section makes honorable service subsequent to the act for which 
award is made, a condition precedent to granting the award. The Navy has 
the same statutory condition (see title 34, U.S.C., 1946 ed., Sec. 362). 
81st Congress, House Report No. 557.


                               Amendments

    1956--Act Aug. 10, 1956, included the distinguished flying cross.
