A ground job after doing all that was necessary to pass a single seat Hunter OCU in those days was hard to accept. So after a few weeks of this, two of us went to Bently Priory one sports afternoon and posted the four of us back to Chivenor, which had 64 Hunters and no studes worth talking about. This worked fine for a while until the system caught up and we had the inevitable interview with the Station Commander. After some pretend (it didn't seem pretend to us at all) very serious comments about interfering with Her Majesty's posting process, Group Captain Pleasance said it was the best thing he had heard of since WWII and asked if we would all like to go to Hunter squadrons.
That man (a WWII commander) knew that the motivation of the troops in a military unit mattered and we were motivated.
What a great story. Shows bravado and initiaitive.
The only way to do that today would be to become some geeky cyber-hacker as postings (sorry, assignments these days) are all done electronically. Although I dare say some in Manning might be able to swing some choice assignments...