Have you ever turned down an assignment and gotten out of the military for it?

My buddy retired at 23 years as SGM because branch had him going back out on a combat tour with under a year between his previous tour and it would have been his 3rd, and there were others who had not been yet.

Any assignments that I was given was on the up and up. Left on due to issues with my feet.

My first command as an officer was a high op tempo floating drydock in which we had a very bad Commanding Officer that was relieved for cause after 7 months. I transferred from her to a sub tender as a favor to the detailer, where we ended up decommissioning her and from there went to my last command, USS Holland AS-32, which was forward deployed in Guam. We were going in for decommissioning so I called for orders, hoping for something in conus. The only offer that was extended was a sub tender in LaMaddalena, Italy. That firmed up my decision to retire, but the XO wouldn't let me retire until I decommissioned the ship as Decom Coordinator. Therefore retired at 21 years. Hindsite being 20/20, I should have went to LaMad.