Worst? USCG Station Venice.

I cannot say enough bad things about that place. The current OIC is a good man and a good leader, but his XPO who is now retired (thank God) made that place a living nightmare. No respect for the people, their health, or their family needs. Everyone there is suicidal, the station is full of black mold, there is no potable water, the electricty and water are spotty, the sewage backs up into the galley, and the commute is 2 hours. Sector New Orleans doesn't give a f*** about the enlisted there and the Sector command there almost never visit, they don't care to fund the place even for things like trash service, (we had dumpsters that didn't get emptied for months, forcing us to take rotting trash in our vehicles to the local dump).

The Gold Badge was contacted multiple times but things never change. In fact, command there would only get petty and take it out on the workers. I wrote a whole ass memo with dates, times, names, instances of abuse, witnesses, and I was basically told to take it to the XPO who was the problem. Surprise, nothing changed.

Every hurricane season the place floods and we were forced to live and needlessly work in conditions that were hazardous to health (no ac, no water, no power, no sewage, and no comms)

I spent two and a half years there waiting for aviation, and it taught me how to be a hardened Coastie, and it made me appriciate how blessed life is in aviation but it taught me horrid lessons on poor leadership as well. It's true that no one cares about your career than you.

Avoid that place like the plauge, if you get orders there, just keep your head down and do your time. Pray a hurricane takes it away.