I've been with our team for 11 years and am now the team leader. We've had members who had been on the team 25+ years. It seems interest increases when we get fresh FNG on the team. We, as a team, plan fun dives to the usual rec diving spots in Coz, Honduras, etc to even things out. I, being the team leader for Dive and the Sergeant in charge of the marine unit and a contract city, have seen my time spent doing things for the team dwindle due to just not enough hours in the day. We have been busy lately, in fact we had an incident that received national news media attention yesterday.
I believe the secret to our team holding members is everyone becomes extremely close as you go through the ups and downs of our business. I have had job offers with other agencies and would make better money, but I can't seem to seperate myself from the team. It's truely like family.