Posted on 04/01/2009 4:51:13 PM PDT by Flavius
We checked into the Sadaam palace/Army hotel. Dino and I shared a room with Kenny Thomas, some of his band-mates and Jeff the tour manager. Seven guys in total sleeping on small beds in what was probably once a guest room, with marble floors and an old Persian rug in the center. I had time to shove a cold pop-tart into my mouth before it was time to go on our first "FOB-hop" FOB stands for "forward operating base." The idea is that they break us up into groups and we go in helicopters to remote bases around Iraq to do mini-shows and meet-n-greets for soldiers that are unable to make it to the big show on the main base in Baghdad.
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