Mel
Elio Addict
. . . and when you fill out your "dream sheet" of preferred duty stations, you can be sure those are the ones you won't get.
When I graduated from radio/radar school in Biloxi, this was the expectation. Everyone in the class except for me asked for the opposite of what they wanted. I asked for Carswell AFB because it was close to home.
When the orders came out, the CO congratulated everyone. He said it's the first time he'd ever seen that everyone got their first choice.
A lot of people were NOT happy!