Well, it's a depressing story for me, but maybe not for others. I was selected for a 4 year assignment to Germany, but I only had about a year or so left on my enlistment. I started learning German and learning about the culture and was looking forward to many aspects (beer, food, driving fast on autobahn, scenery, castles, seeing WWII battle places --- and not necessarily in that order). I was given the choice to re-enlist and get a bonus or to extend my current enlistment for 3 years. I believe all the services (except maybe the navy since they spend 6 months at sea and then 6 months home in general) have a concept called retainability. I had to have 4 years of retainability for the assignment and only had 1. Well, since military folks are not the best paid, I opted for the money (duh!). Exactly two weeks after I re-enlisted, they cancelled my assignment to Germany with my family and sent me for a year to Korea by myself. If I had extended to take the assignment and the assignment was cancelled, then I could've cancelled the extension, but because I had re-enlisted, I was stuck (and that, in my mind was spelled s c r e w e d). So, I never got to see Germany and spent a VERY long year in Korea. I got selected for another assignment to Germany when I had about a year left on that enlistment, but a) I had already made up my mind I no longer wanted the military as a career and b) fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
I will keep it in mind that you're willing to be a support to them, but for now, I think they're good. Then again, I haven't talked to them in over 2 weeks, so who knows. LOL! 
