I am looking to enlist and have begun talking with my recruiter. I got a copy of a recruit assignment data worksheet and have a couple questions about it. Let me also add the caveat that I completely understand that the needs of the service are the most important factor related to one’s assigned duty location. With that said, if there was an open billet at a surf station or at the very least a small boat station, it would be my first pick.

On the dream sheet I have, it has four lines for “geographic preference”. I’ve been told I can get the district of my choice guaranteed to me. In this case, I’ll choose District 13, which realistically has only two states with small boat/ surf stations. I was told I could list individual states as a “geographic preference”, but with a guaranteed district, I could only list Washington and Oregon (only 2 of 4 choices)? Further down the dream sheet, it has three spots for each of the four geographic areas that I listed above. I’d like to list every surf station in District 13, but it seems like at most I could list three for Washington and three for Oregon- is this accurate?

I recall hearing from someone that you can literally write, “all small boat stations west coast” on a dream sheet and it gives you a pretty high chance of getting a small boat station. Would this be a smart way to fill the sheet out? Could I do the same for “all surf stations”?

Finally, at the back of the worksheet, it has a complete list of every Coast Guard unit by unit-type and district. Under District 13 small boat stations, a particular unit is listed three times. Is this a typo, or does it indicate the number of available billets?

hey, can you scan me a copy of that unit list? I've been looking for that forever. Oh and don't lose it after you join because for some reason noone has ever heard of that list except recruiters.
You can negotiate once with a recruiter and get a guarenteed school or unit if you have some pull. Really the first unit doesnt matter. Whatever you strike or decide to do you'll have to leave and go to a-school. So you'll only be there for 2 years at the most, thats if you want to go HS. And at least 4 months because usually units want you to at least get quallified on something before you leave.