This past March, Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry, along with their crew headed for the Middle East and the war zone as part of a USO Tour... here is the journal Troy kept along the way

March 6-7, 2006
Started out in Nashville, Tennessee at 1:30pm and traveled to Atlanta to meet up with Eddie. From Atlanta we went to Washington, DC where we had a three and a half hour layover. We spent most of it walking around the airport trying to find out where the luggage was. Only one-piece came up, everything else was checked through to Frankfort, Germany. While we were waiting, we got something to eat at Wendy's and went to the First Class Lounge, had a drink and waited on the band and crew to show up from Nashville.

From here we will fly to Frankfort, Germany. The plane is sweet. Comfort to the max! Tuning everything out and giving out our MG military coins.

We arrive in Germany, the weather is cool and there is snow on the ground. The airport looks a lot like Vancouver, Canada at first. Outside with the snow it looks like Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi. We have an hour and a half ride to Reinstein, Germany to the military base. I sleep most of the time. It is about 1:00a.m. here. Got to the base and called home to let Angie know we made it here. We stop at the base for a food break at Chili's?eat, drink and socialize with some of the military personnel there.

We will leave Reinsein for Kuwait. We meet the General and board the military aircraft for the 6-hour flight. The plane is like the ones you see in the movies, huge and surreal. No fear at all at this point. Comfort level good, not like a war is going on- just another gig so far. It is 11:35 am central time, 5:35pm in Germany and 7:35pm in Kuwait. Going to lay down in the sleeping bags they gave us and try to sleep. We land in Kuwait at 2:30 am Kuwait time and go to the hotel for a couple of hours. I call home again.