My friend was in the Navy. After her first posting, she was given a choice of next posts. She could chose some really nice places (Hawaii, etc) and have little actual chance of being posted there, and end up wherever she was needed instead. She also had the choice of some unpopular posts, including Alaska, Antarctica, etc. If you chose one of the unpopular ones, at your next posting you would be guaranteed wherever you wanted.
She knew a guy who had chosen Antarctica. When it came time to choose a new post, he chose Antarctica again. This threw up alarm bells within his chain of command. Who the hell would take that post, and given the choice of anywhere in the world, would choose the icy hellhole again? He was sent to a psychiatrist repeatedly.
Eventually, he admitted: He had made a buddy. A pet penguin. He would go camping with it.
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Date: 2015-10-01 05:26 pm (UTC)My friend was in the Navy. After her first posting, she was given a choice of next posts. She could chose some really nice places (Hawaii, etc) and have little actual chance of being posted there, and end up wherever she was needed instead. She also had the choice of some unpopular posts, including Alaska, Antarctica, etc. If you chose one of the unpopular ones, at your next posting you would be guaranteed wherever you wanted.
She knew a guy who had chosen Antarctica. When it came time to choose a new post, he chose Antarctica again. This threw up alarm bells within his chain of command. Who the hell would take that post, and given the choice of anywhere in the world, would choose the icy hellhole again? He was sent to a psychiatrist repeatedly.
Eventually, he admitted: He had made a buddy. A pet penguin. He would go camping with it.
The Navy posted him in Hawaii for life.