Every Div is allocated a certain amount of seats for a course, in turn, every Brigade is allocated out of that allocation.
Keep in mind the training year starts in April and the 2014-15 Noational calendar has only been leaked to individual training cells so far. I believe we (41CBG) pushed out the "draft" to the units with which course we had allocations on, deleting all the "not-entitled" to courses.
As well, we don't always get the allocations we are given. Example, I calle the Int people this morning to confirm course dates for the Tactical Questioner course. The draft dates and the real ones are different and even though I was told we had two position \s allocated to us, Int school says the courses are both loaded.
Some members don't realise that at the brigade level, we filter what goes up. At the unit level your RSS guy should be doing that and before it even gets to him, your troop/platton warrant should be looking at it.
Just because the CQCB course is running and your buddy said he's going on it doesn't mean he is... he may have a NOMINATION for it but until he gets on the plane/arrives at the school, he ain't got nothing. We had guys ENROLLED on PLQ-A two weeks ago that were deleted last week.
Another point? A supply tech that puts in for underwater knife fighting might not need it as much as the combat engineer.
Edit to add: here's the DWAN link - http://lfdts-ctc.kingston.mil.ca/CTCHQ/G3/g3ops/ArmyNationalCalendar/Shared%20Documents/Home.aspx