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[CITE: 14USC727]

 
                          TITLE 14--COAST GUARD
 
               PART II--COAST GUARD RESERVE AND AUXILIARY
 
                     CHAPTER 21--COAST GUARD RESERVE
 
                              SUBCHAPTER B
 
                          commissioned officers
 
Sec. 727. Constructive credit upon initial appointment

    Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, a person, appointed 
as a Reserve officer, may be assigned a date of rank and precedence 
which reflects that person's experience, education, or other 
qualifications. For the purpose of this subchapter only, a person 
appointed for the purpose of assignment or designation as a law 
specialist in the reserve shall be credited with a minimum of three 
years service in an active status. A person holding a doctor of 
philosophy, or a comparable degree, in medicine or in a science allied 
to medicine as determined by the Secretary, may be credited with a 
minimum of three years service in an active status if appointed for an 
assignment comparable to that of an officer in the Navy Medical 
Department.

(Added Pub. L. 96-322, Sec. 1, Aug. 4, 1980, 94 Stat. 1009.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in 
section 773 of this title prior to the complete revision of this chapter 
by Pub. L. 96-322.
