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TikToker Callie Green’s hilariously horrified reaction to her Air Force assignment has been viewed 14 million times.
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Those in the know assumed she was assigned to Minot, North Dakota, a unanimously dreaded base among airmen.
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Commenters have chimed in with sympathy and commiseration, while others are learning details about Air Force assignments for the first time.
A viral TikTok from a user who goes by Callie Green is shining a light on the Air Force assignment process for the uninitiated — specifically about an infamous base in North Dakota that is apparently widely dreaded among airmen.
In Green’s video, which has accrued 13.3 million views since it was shared on Wednesday, the TikToker and a colleague recorded themselves learning about their assignments. Inset text read, “POV: you put all overseas in your dream sheet, but the Air Force had other plans.”
Upon getting the news, neither verbalize the name of the base, but both dissolve into horrified laughter. “I was not expecting that,” Green says in the video, as her colleague covers her mouth and repeatedly shouts, “No!”
Commenters were of two minds: They were either utterly clueless or knew precisely what the reactions meant.
“That NO made me IMMEDIATELY think she got MINOT,” reads one of the video’s top comments. Another said, “Me googling Minot because I ended on this side of tiktok and don’t know what’s happening.”
Green has not responded to commenters asking about the assignment, though she did react to going viral in response to a tweet from BuzzFeed News reporter Katie Notopoulus, who called the TikTok compelling and niche.
Insider has reached out to Green for comment and confirmation about the speculations.
The Minot Air Force Base, located just south of the Canadian border, has become somewhat notorious, with others on TikTok bemoaning their assignments.
In a December 2021 video with 364,000 views, the user @hutchyharley can be seen flipping off “whoever … thought it would be funny to put me at Minot for four years.” Months earlier, the user @jaciiie simply wrote, “I want to leave so bad, such a sick joke” after sharing her station with viewers.
In a video from February, user @aimhighwhiting captioned, “POV: you check your orders and see Minot, North Dakota,” as he filmed himself jumping up from a chair in frustration and pretending to hurl his tablet onto the ground.
Last year, Task and Purpose covered Minot’s infamous status in the Air Force with more serious anecdotes. In addition to being in a frigid and remote location, the outlet reported that people claiming to be Minot veterans were anonymously posting on Facebook about being “overworked, mismanaged, and disrespected based on their gender.”
At the time, Minot’s chief of public affairs, Maj. Christopher Mesnard, told the outlet that leadership was addressing these concerns.
Reactions to professional and educational assignments have become a massive draw on TikTok, including college acceptance results, as well as “Match Day,” in which medical students learn where they will be completing their residencies.
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