Which celebrity or Band visited your base during your deployment?

Drew Carey came out in 2003 but I was stopping the "Syrian invasion" and missed it. BTW, the Syrian border is defined by a 2ft (being generous) wall of dirt.

Bob Hope....oh, wait...I'm not that old.

My first tour (03-04), Al Asad was still too remote and dangerous to get to for most USO shows. To my memory, we had 3 USO shows come out and, to me, one of them really didn't count. We had some no name comics come through over the summer of 2003 and in the fall, Drew Carey's show came through (only major performer to come west back then). The 82nd Airborne Chorus came out as well.....but since they were soldiers, I don't really count them as a USO show.

My second tour in Iraq (09-10), I was on CP Bucca (before it closed), then Cp Cropper on Victory Compound. At Bucca we had the Sacramento Kings cheerleaders come visit. That was a fun show. On Cropper, Five Finger Death Punch did a show on next door CP Sather (but I didn't go). I caught Whitney Duncan at FOB Prosperity. There were a bunch of other shows at Cp Liberty, but since they were on the opposite side of Victory Compound, I never got to go out there for shows.

The then president Jimmy Carter the day after I landed at Rhein Main AB Germany. The only time I was grateful of jet lag.

The most memorable for me was when the cast of "The Unit" came to visit. I was part of the PSD team. The were some of the most "normal" celebrities I have ever met. For them it was not at all about them, but all about the troops.

Back in the 80's I got to see Charlie Daniels in Jacksonville, Fl. And in 2007, Trace Adkins was in Norfolk, Va. Both, free concerts. Other than that, no one really of note.

Although, on the USS Stennis, during the filming of Transformers II, I met Megan Fox. I, literally, ran into her in the hangar bay. I knocked her on her little, bitty butt, helped her up, apologized and went to get coffee.

I was deployed to Al Asad air station in 2007-08 for my second deployment. It was a nice base, so I considered myself pretty lucky. That said, I have you all beat though this probably doesn't stick strictly to the spirit of the question.

One day, out of the blue, my unit, the one assigned to base security during the deployment, was tasked with overseeing security for a VIP that had everyone in a buzz. Not me and my squad of course. We worked an entry control point feeling up third-party nationals and checking trucks for bombs for a living. Come to find out, though, that the VIP was actually the POTUS George W. Bush. I had friends in other companies who actually guarded him during the deployment. One guy I knew, the radio operator, was sent to do something away from the President's motorcade, if it is still called that in Iraq, for a few minutes. When he got back they were moving out. I am pretty sure he got a cercom for that. Don't ask me how he was rewarded for being left behind by the President, but it was a funny story.

Did I see him? No. Like I said, feeling up TCNs and huntin' bombs.

If you really don't like that story because the President isn't really a celeb, I guess... Chuck Norris was also there too.

We had some ladies from some crappy reality show called army wives or something. We also had the Patriots Cheerleaders and a couple retired NFL players

Carrie Underwood came to Balad in 2006. That was kinda cool.

We had a whole lot of nothing come to visit us during my time here... Either no one likes FOB Shank (or they were scared of the mortars), or that is part of being here during the draw-down.