Who is the most famous celebrity or person that you have had the pleasure of meeting?

2016-09-05T02:50:54-04:00

Colin Powell and Tiger Woods. Have had the pleasure of meeting both of these gentlemen!! And no thumbs down for Tiger... :)!

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Sep 5 at 2016 2:53 AM

2016-09-05T02:53:29-04:00

Harvey Korman. One of God's gifts to comedy.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 5 at 2016 3:13 AM

2016-09-05T03:13:05-04:00

I shook the hand Admiral Mullen ,the head of the JCS in 2008 at PRT Farah in late 2008. I can't find his picture but it is here somewhere. He was able to get our Seacan/Connex box from Pakistan sent to us in 3 days. He was followed by a CBS 60 minutes crew. He gave out Coins in his name. He was a military version of a Rockstar. Smart, down to earth and a 4 Star Admiral.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 5 at 2016 3:43 AM

2016-09-05T03:43:05-04:00

Sir, I know you did not ask Tiger how he likes his false teeth after his wife hit him with an golf club after finding women texting him LOL. :)

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 5 at 2016 4:12 AM

2016-09-05T04:12:29-04:00

Haven't really met anyone, worked security at a few concerts. Got to meet some band members, stuff like that. For military, I missed out on meeting SMA Dailey and the Secretary of the Army, can't remember if it was Fanning or Murphy. Cancelled a trip to Arlington when both of them were going to be there.

I did meet a One Star once, otherwise nothing much.

Response by LCpl Todd Houston made Sep 5 at 2016 4:16 AM

2016-09-05T04:16:06-04:00

Stormin' Norman and president George H W Bush. Bob Hope, Steve Martin and Dabney Colman

Response by CPT Tom Monahan made Sep 5 at 2016 6:52 AM

2016-09-05T06:52:18-04:00

My family, neighbor's, fraternity families and fellow Soldiers. Entertainers and athletes are simply paid performers who I really have no loving or value connection with. Politicians are employees. Perfomers and politicians have the trappings of their success, but most do not share my values. Think about this: Who would you be more excited to se at the airport after a deployment, you loving spouse and kids or Tom Brady?

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 5 at 2016 8:09 AM

2016-09-05T08:09:13-04:00

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20031229,00.html

I've met some interesting people here and there but they all met Time Magazines "person of the year" for 2003.

Response by PO1 Tony Holland made Sep 5 at 2016 8:31 AM

2016-09-05T08:31:55-04:00

Lloyd Bridges at dinner in New Orleans on his birthday after a full day at the annual DEMA trade show (Scuba Diving Industry). After we recognized him, our waiter overheard us and went to his table to inform him. Much to our surprise he got up and came over to talk. Despite three of us having cameras, no one thought to ask for a picture. The next day he was inducted into the Diving Hall of Fame.

Response by SFC Pete Kain made Sep 5 at 2016 9:28 AM

2016-09-05T09:28:12-04:00

Norman Fell, his wife bummed a smoke off me as they were asking for directions to Solvang Ca.
Sigh the life styles of the rich and famous.

Response by CSM Charles Hayden made Sep 5 at 2016 10:33 AM

2016-09-05T10:33:39-04:00

COL Lee Flemming Bob Hope and Gene Autrey's sidekick, Pat Buttram. The x-daughters-in-law have those photos! !!!!!!!

Response by SN Greg Wright made Sep 5 at 2016 11:32 AM

2016-09-05T11:32:49-04:00

George Burns and Bon Jovi.

Response by Capt Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 5 at 2016 11:36 AM

2016-09-05T11:36:36-04:00

I met the Oakridge Boys. We were on an airplane together.

Response by SGM Mikel Dawson made Sep 5 at 2016 11:55 AM

2016-09-05T11:55:37-04:00

I got to share a cigar with Arnold S. once. I was surprised how short he really is. I'm 5' 10", and I could look him in the eye.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 5 at 2016 12:41 PM

2016-09-05T12:41:28-04:00

allen paige vikings purple people eaters, my mom took care of his kids, he's a minnisota supreme court judge now, patty labell in philli airport i was headed for iraq, she gave me a hug

Response by CSM Charles Hayden made Sep 5 at 2016 1:20 PM

2016-09-05T13:20:57-04:00

COL Lee Flemming Milton Berle, Once when he was performing in the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas. I told the waitress that 'we' wanted to pay for Uncle Miltie's 3 AM breakfast. She told us he was 'comped' for everything. Mr. Berle did come to our table and said, "Thanks anyway".

Response by CPO Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 5 at 2016 1:37 PM

2016-09-05T13:37:16-04:00

Christina Applegate, 1989, I was having to fly to meet my first Battalion as they had already deployed. I was at LAX and just changed into my Sailor uniform, back then if you traveled MAC flights you had to be in uniform and she and here friends saw me and asked for a photo, believe it or not.
The other would be Sam Elliot, Panama City Beach FL, at beach bar called Spinnaker'r and we may have had some drinks together all day.
Gen Gray, Commandant of Marine Corps Desert Shield Storm, our COC picked a GRP to meet him when he was visiting all the Marines deployed and he wanted to see some Seabees attached to Marines during this time.
Gorge W. Bush, Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice, President Musharraf, President Pakistan, I was able to meet all of them at his presidential Place Pakistan 2006.
SECDEV Donald Rummsfeld, in the mountains of Pakistan where we were working and he wanted to meet us specifically he said "where are the Seabees" and we had to give him a brief. This was not a good security situation the DSS guys and RSO wanted him in and out quick.
Ambassador Ryan Crocker in Pakistan where he was the Ambassador when we were on a HA/CA mission.
We also had CODEL visits all the time, I sent troops over that were members or from that state.

Response by PO1 Brian Austin made Sep 5 at 2016 2:34 PM

2016-09-05T14:34:50-04:00

Met Oliver North while standing in line at a porta-john in Kuwait before heading out to the flightline. We were on same flight to Baghdad. He was on assignment with Fox News. Very nice guy, took a lot of photos with the troops, shared his beef jerky.

Met Pro Wrestler Bill Goldberg, we were on same flight from San Fran to San Diego. He lives in the Fallbrook area. He was really nice as well, shook my kids hands, posed for photos with them.

Response by Sgt Christopher Wenzel made Sep 5 at 2016 4:36 PM

2016-09-05T16:36:23-04:00

Chairman Dunford, Gen Neller, SecDef Hagel, SgtMajMC Green, SgtMaj Kassel, MajGen "Droopy" Clark. Easy to do so when you worked at MARSOC and the Pentagon.

Response by SFC George Smith made Sep 5 at 2016 7:42 PM

2016-09-05T19:42:49-04:00

King Of Thailand ... in 1998

Response by LTC Greg Henning made Sep 5 at 2016 8:29 PM

2016-09-05T20:29:25-04:00

LTC Private RallyPoint Member While I was the congressional trip planner I met four famous Senators: John McCain , Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Joe Lieberman.

Response by SCPO Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 6 at 2016 1:09 AM

2016-09-06T01:09:03-04:00

Can't say I would have even mentioned one of the two. The one was super fine all by his lonesome!!! As for those whom I've met, those with whom I've dined and partied, an Academy Award winner who was a best bud in High School, I just be setting myself up to get slammed for being a name-dropper.

Response by MSgt Richard Rountree made Sep 6 at 2016 8:09 AM

2016-09-06T08:09:40-04:00

Wow...tough to decide who is the most famous...

1970 - John Young (astronaut) visited our USAF JROTC class at Mainland HS, Daytona Beach FL and talked with us for a hour or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut)

1971 - On a class trip to NYC, we ran into Danny and Marlo Thomas walking through Central Park. They spoke with us for a few minutes and posed for photographs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Thomas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlo_Thomas

About 1984-85 - Colonel Robert L. Howard, U.S. Army, at Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart, West Germany. Col Howard was a guest lecturer a few times in a University of Maryland class "Vietnam in Film and Literature". At the time he was the Commander of the VII Corps HHC when I was a part of the VII Corps ALO/TACP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Howard

2009 - Actor Robert Patrick - twice. First time was Reno NV at the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM) convention. Then I ran into him a couple of weeks again in a Pentagon parking lot at the 2009 Rolling Thunder event in Washington D.C.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Patrick

John Young (astronaut) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Captain John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is a retired American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer, who became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.

Response by SGT William Howell made Sep 6 at 2016 10:31 AM

2016-09-06T10:31:12-04:00

Hands down Kid Rock! I was with the KY National Guard working the Kentucky Derby one year. I got the luck of the draw and got to work Millionaires Row doing roving patrol. I went to one of the bars that had all the celebrities there. Brooks and Dunn, Cuba Gooding Jr., Usher, Tara Reid, Payton and Eli Manning.

I was just taking it all in. and Kid Rock gets up from the other side of the bar and comes over and sticks his hand out and says, "I want to thank you for your service." I shook his hand and we talked for about 10 minutes. He was such a humble person and just a genuinely nice guy. I have never forgot how cool he was.

http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/08/kid-rock-army-vet-home-photos/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHzSBEVbXtM

Kid Rock Shocks Army Vet By Giving Him A New Home!

By Jon Boon - Radar Reporter Hard-rocking Kid Rock showed his softer side when he was on hand to present a new home he helped finance to a severely injured Army veteran in Michigan over the weekend...

Response by Cpl Justin Goolsby made Sep 6 at 2016 3:01 PM

2016-09-06T15:01:10-04:00

Casper Van Dien and Adrian Paul. I met these 2 gentlemen when they came to a local sci-fi convention in my area (same convention, different years).

Of course I got photos with them and autographs, but what I really enjoyed was just being able to talk with them for a couple minutes about our families. It's nice being able to talk to a celebrity as a down to earth regular person.

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 6 at 2016 4:41 PM

2016-09-06T16:41:27-04:00

I wouldn't exactly consider him a celebrity, but I once met SMA (R) Chandler when he was visiting Ft. Bragg. He passed me by at the SSC. When I greeted him, he stopped, looked me up and down gave me a brief nod and said "Nice haircut, Soldier!" and then walked away. I was confused and excited at the same time. Hahaha

Response by TSgt Kenneth Ellis made Sep 6 at 2016 7:44 PM

2016-09-06T19:44:15-04:00

Response by CAPT Kevin B. made Sep 6 at 2016 11:55 PM

2016-09-06T23:55:48-04:00

Probably Ike and Mamie in '67 before he laid the cornerstone for the new National Presbyterian Church. While working as a Nurses Aide at Motion Picture Hospital, I took care of a Stooge, two Tarzans, Tonto, and Bud Abbot. Moe would visit Larry. Wish I could remember the stories they swapped. Oh yes, The Duke 3 times, Sly, Nader, and Ollie. Did call Ann Margret a B way back when.

Response by SFC Mark Beazley made Sep 7 at 2016 11:40 AM

2016-09-07T11:40:35-04:00

I'm a little late to the discussion on this one but...

We gave a tank ride to Drew Carrey back in the early 2000's while in Kuwait for one of the Intrinsic Action deployments.

Had a visit at NTC from Brad Pitt, Shia LeBouef, a few other cast members and production some of the film crew while "Fury" was in pre-production. Shia wore ACUs with SPC rank and our Driver had no idea who he was and kept asking him if he had any smokes.
#whydoesjoeneverpackenoughsmokesforthefield

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 9 at 2016 5:30 PM

2016-09-09T17:30:16-04:00

Arnold Schearzeneger back in 2001

Response by CSM Charles Hayden made Jan 29 at 2018 7:18 PM

2018-01-29T19:18:17-05:00

COL Lee Flemming Last weekend, 1/19-20/2018, at separate events I was pleased to shake hands with: 1. General Michael Hayden, former DIRCIA, (when I introduced myself as SGM Harry Hayden, (my middle name is Harry), he said, “I have a brother named Harry”. To which I said, “I did a recon General”

2. The next day I attended a speech by LTC Alan West, former BN CDR in the 4th ID and later member of Congress from Florida.

Please note: the US Flag pin in my lapel!

Response by Capt Dwayne Conyers made Jan 29 at 2018 8:26 PM

2018-01-29T20:26:36-05:00

I've been in the room with Clinton, Bush, and Obama. I've briefed Senators and Representatives. Four-Star officers. Hollywood celebrities. Looking forward to the day I see Jesus Christ face to face.

Response by LTC Orlando Illi made Jan 29 at 2018 8:48 PM

2018-01-29T20:48:32-05:00

Gene Chandler "...Duke of Earl..."

Response by SFC Jerry Humphries made Jan 29 at 2018 9:26 PM

2018-01-29T21:26:09-05:00

Buzz Aldrin

Response by CSM Charles Hayden made Jan 29 at 2018 9:49 PM

2018-01-29T21:49:26-05:00

COL Lee Flemming 1978 - 2/17 Inf, The Buffalos, 7th ID, Ft Ord. CSM Gilbert Broner, signator on my “Buffalo”, was a friend of Tiger’s father in SF. The last time I spoke with Gil, he said he could call and be CONNECTED with Tiger, Now!

Response by SFC William Farrell made Jan 29 at 2018 10:21 PM

2018-01-29T22:21:37-05:00

COL Lee Flemming Many Medal of Honor recipients including Nicky Bacon and Leo Thorsness. I met SSG Bacon when I had just returned from Vietnam and we were standing in line outside a snack bar at Fort Hood, I turn around for a second and Nicky is there in his Class A's and I could not help to notice that top ribbon of blue with white stars. Col Thorness I met while volunteering at the Medal of Honor Convention a number of years ago. A class act, he is thanking me and my twin brother for our service. He had it all wrong as he was a Prisoner of War, brutally beaten and a Medal of Honor recipient and we told him so. We lost him a few years ago. Me on the left, my brother on the right and Col Thorsness in the middle.

Response by Susan Foster made Jan 29 at 2018 10:43 PM

2018-01-29T22:43:39-05:00

I got to meet Colin Powell, which was an honor. But I also got to meet Harrison Ford, and I didn't wash my hand for a week!

Response by SFC Greg Bruorton made Jan 29 at 2018 10:59 PM

2018-01-29T22:59:29-05:00

I can't say I actually shook the man's hand, but I saw my mentor Chet Atkins in a Tucson concert and was mesmerized by his guitar work and his singing of, "I Still Can't Say Goodbye." From what I know, Chet lived a modest life and kept himself out of the limelight other than on the stage with other guitarists. When he died in 2001 I shed a few tears.

Response by SPC Douglas Bolton made Jan 29 at 2018 11:42 PM

2018-01-29T23:42:44-05:00

COL Lee Flemming Andre Aggasi. He even gave my wife a high five. Arnold Palmer. Got his autograph. Hall of Famer Bob Feller. I have his autographed picture in my den. Wille Mays. Talked breafly with him and got an autograph. Bob Larson. Only pitcher to pitch a no hitter in the World Series. (I guess all I met were sports figures.)

Response by SPC Akeaster Searcy made Jan 30 at 2018 12:14 AM

2018-01-30T00:14:48-05:00

My favorite wrestler ever it was pleasure meeting him at his book signing I would neverin my life ever thought I will meet him. What a awesome chance of a lifetime.

Response by SGT Thomas Lucken made Jan 31 at 2018 7:33 AM

2018-01-31T07:33:05-05:00

I have had the opportunity to work with and meet some well-known people over the span of my years of life, which is climbing. But the biggest honor was meeting Ron Rosser, Korean War Medal of Honor Recipient. Picture below from 1996, I am on the right. By this time I as a contractor for the Army along with my good friend on the left, Gunner Wagner.