However, over time and having experienced different short-term international assignments, motivations change and often become more a family than individual concern, as the following quote describes: ‘‘I put the Army first in the early days,
but I have had an epiphany...at the end of thirty-one years they will give me my green book and say thanks for the memories...so for me it’s family first and job second... my family’s happiness is my first concern’’ (FAM 01S).