PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 393-AUG. 4, 1949
any such temporary appointment shall be included in determining
length of service as a warrant officer or enlisted man.
§ 227. Promotion and dismissal of temporary commissioned
officers
The Secretary may, without regard to length of service or
seniority, promote any temporary commissioned officer to a grade not
above that of captain, and may call for the resignation of, dismiss,
or reduce in grade, any temporary commissioned officer for unfitness,
or misconduct, or when his services are no longer required.
§ 228. Appointment of commissioned warrant officers
(a) The President may appoint, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate, permanent commissioned warrant officers in the
Coast Guard, as the needs of the Coast Guard may require,-from
among the following categories:
(1) temporary commissioned officers of the Coast Guard;
(2) temporary commissioned warrant officers of the Coast
Guard;
(3) temporary and permanent warrant officers of the Coast
Guard;
(4) enlisted men of the Coast Guard;
(5) members of the Coast Guard Reserve; and
(6) licensed officers of the United States Merchant Marine.
(b) No person shall be appointed a commissioned warrant officer
until his mental, moral, physical, and professional fitness to perform
the duties of a commissioned warrant officer has been established as
the result of such examinations as the Secretary shall prescribe.
(c) Appointees under this section shall take precedence with other
commissioned warrant officers in accordance with the dates of their
commissions. Appointees whose dates of commission are the same
shall take precedence with each other as the Secretary may determine.
§ 229. Revocation of commissions during first three years of
commissioned service
The President, under such regulations as he may prescribe, may
revoke the commission of any officer on the active list who, at the
date of such revocation, has had less than three years of continuous
service as a commissioned officer in the Coast Guard, and each officer
whose commission is so revoked shall revert to his former status or
be separated from the Coast Guard.
§ 230. Compulsory retirement at age of sixty-two
Any commissioned officer who has reached the age of sixty-two shall
be retired from active service, with retired pay of the grade with
which retired.
§ 231. Voluntary retirement after thirty years' service
Any commissioned officer who has completed thirty years' service
may, upon his own application, in the discretion of the Secretary, be
retired from active service with retired pay of the grade with which
retired.
§ 232. Voluntary retirement after twenty years' service
Any commissioned officer who has completed twenty years' active
service in the Coast Guard, Navy, or Marine Corps, or the Reserve
Components thereof, including active duty for training, at least ten
years of which shall have been active commissioned service, may, upon
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