Pub. L. 83-773, tit. VI, sec. 614

Sec. 614. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, if a Reserve officer is promoted when his or her running mate in the Regular Coast Guard is promoted and such promotion of the Regular running mate is on a temporary basis, the promotion of the Reserve officer concerned shall be on a temporary basis, and if subsequently the Regular running mate is reverted to a lower grade (for reasons other than disciplinary or for incompetence or at his own request), the Reserve officer shall likewise revert to the same lower grade in the same manner as his running mate in the Regular service and take corresponding precedence. (b) An officer of the Reserve shall be promoted for temporary service or promoted permanently dependent upon the character of the promotion extended to his running mate. Subject to satisfactory service, under such appointment for temporary service, the appointment of the officer of the Reserve will be made permanent when that of his running mate is made permanent or would have been made permanent if his temporary service in the higher grade was found to have been satisfactory.