14 U.S.C. § 214 : US Code - Section 214: Appointment of temporary officers

Search 14 U.S.C. § 214 : US Code - Section 214: Appointment of temporary officers

(a) The President may appoint temporary commissioned officers in
the Regular Coast Guard in a grade, not above lieutenant,
appropriate to their qualifications, experience, and length of
service, as the needs of the Coast Guard may require, from among
the commissioned warrant officers, warrant officers, and enlisted
members of the Coast Guard, and from licensed officers of the
United States merchant marine.
(b) Temporary appointments under this section do not change the
permanent, probationary, or acting status of persons so appointed,
prejudice them in regard to promotion or appointment, or abridge
their rights or benefits. A person who is appointed under this
section may not suffer any reduction in the rate of pay and
allowances to which he would have been entitled had he remained in
his former grade and continued to receive the increases in pay and
allowances authorized for that grade.
(c) An appointment under this section, or a subsequent promotion
appointment of a temporary officer, may be vacated by the
appointing officer at any time. Each officer whose appointment is
so vacated shall revert to his permanent status.
(d) Appointees under this section shall take precedence in the
grade to which appointed in accordance with the dates of their
appointments as officers in such grade. Appointees whose dates of
appointment are the same shall take precedence with each other as
the Secretary shall determine.