She gets two 15-minute phone calls a week and has access to one of the three computers provided for soldiers' personal use at the camp. Little says she's looking forward to eating at her favourite restaurant when she gets back to Kingston. With soldiers doing without many of the comforts of home while deployed overseas, the military provides certain incentives. These include wage increases which take into account time spent away from family, as well as previous overseas tours. There are also periods of leave when soldiers are subsidized to take a trip outside the military camp where they are stationed.
Many soldiers choose to visit a nearby country during that time.
A popular spot for peacekeepers in Bosnia is Budapest. Moore, whose job as a warrant officer includes monitoring the morale of the soldiers in his unit, says these incentives are important and necessary, but admits there are times military personnel are sent home because of personal reasons. Every rotation has people with different reasons why they don't stay - for some, their wives are pregnant and for others, their marriages are splitting up. It's a fact of life. If I've got a soldier whose mind isn't 100 per cent on what he's doing, then he's a danger not just to himself, but to everyone around him.