Posted on Oct 25, 2014
Which celebrity or Band visited your base during your deployment?
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All we had was the Oakland Raiderettes B-Squad cheer team and Tito Ortiz, And i think former SMA Preston came to our COB.
Posted 11 y ago
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Saw Tom Jones in Izmir, Turkey; Bob Hope in Guam; and USO Shows all over the Med during different Deployments - with a bunch of no names to remember, but good. Many USO Shows visited in Guam with Japanese groups who did great songs in English, yet spoke not one word of English during breaks.
Have also had four different Congressmen visit my ships while deployed to do meet and greet with constituents from their states, One was from NC (my district, Howard Coble) and I hosted him in the CPO mess while in Genoa, Italy.
Have also had four different Congressmen visit my ships while deployed to do meet and greet with constituents from their states, One was from NC (my district, Howard Coble) and I hosted him in the CPO mess while in Genoa, Italy.
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PO3 John Jeter
The USO notified our ship they were coming out to do a show while we were on WESTPAC. (It was an LSD with 350 crew and about the same number of Marines.) They never said who it was. The crew went crazy getting everything spiffed up and as presentable as we could. 36 hours before the show they sent us a notice that there wasn't enough people to make it worthwhile so they detoured to another location. It sort of left a bad taste in my mind for the USO........That was the only time in 4 years a show even came close to us........
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I didn't get to see any but one idiot who was clearly stoned while preforming.
I was jealous of my buddies in Kuwait who got to see Tech N9ne….lucky
I was jealous of my buddies in Kuwait who got to see Tech N9ne….lucky
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SGT (Join to see)
I was sooo desperate to see him I tried trading Leave so I could pass thru the same time he was there. Didn't happen but one day!!!
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We had some big hotshot country singer "visit" FOB Frontenac. I use quotation marks because my PLT stayed in the MP doing maintenance and mission prep while our sister PLT took their vehicles to the center of the FOB for a little show and tell. They stayed maybe an hour or two, did a small meet and greet, ate, then left. Was fairly disappointing not because I didn't get to go, but because to me it seemed like "hi, i'm here treat me special, oh look gotta go".
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3 Doors Down on the flight deck of GEORGE WASHINGTON off the coast of Portugal, if I remember correctly, back in 2002 was pretty awesome. Heard their whole second album before it was released.
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My BN CSM came out to visit us a few times. Other then that we didn't get any visitors.
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Trace Adkins was in Balad, Iraq in Oct of 2010. Jim Kelly and a few other NFL players also made an appearance in Nov in Balad as well.
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Cheap Trick, The motels, Little jimmy Dickens, and an Elvis trilogy performance that was out of this world.
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ADM Mullen came with Kid Rock to Sharana, Afghanistan. I give Kid this, he would go anywhere they would fly him to. No pretense. Think Lewis Black came too. I covered the TOC so people could go.
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SPC(P) Jay Heenan
When were you at Sharana LTC Jason Mackay ? I was there '08-'09. I don't think anyone came there, at least while I was on the FOB.
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