There are planty of positive motivators, fear and greed are only two of them
But seriously, the military is motivated by extreme honor, pride, brotherhood and most certainly fear. The clerk at the county is not in the same ballpark.
The soldier is at PT at 4:30 A.M. because he knows what will happen if he's not = fear. In actual war his motivations shift to brotherhood, honor etc.. (not that they are not always there to some degree).
Gag my with an old shoe before you start claiming brotherhood and honor among County administrators