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Monday, December 17, 2012
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey wraps up the first leg of the annual USO holiday tour with a little help from his new friends.Read full story![NASCAR's Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Joey Logano deliver a peck to a deployed troop. (USO Photo by Michael Clifton)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130224071851im_/http://www.uso.org/assets/0/2147483669/2147483693/2147484530/27917287535/27917287964/8cbeb3d7-25d1-4145-af81-a92fa322e522.jpg)
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Two of NASCAR's young stars spent some of their valuable off-circuit free time to lift the spirits of deployed servicemen and women.Read full story![Michael Connelly, far right. (USO photo)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130224071851im_/http://www.uso.org/assets/0/2147483669/2147483693/2147484529/27917287830/9705e86b-6ef0-4cdd-99ab-03fe75f6bfbd.jpg)
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Ironically, for bestselling crime novelist Michael Connelly, it didn’t take a detective to deduce how much deployed troops enjoy visits from USO entertainers. Read full story![Gen. Martin Ramsey (USO photo)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130224071851im_/http://www.uso.org/assets/0/2147483669/2147483693/2147484530/27917287535/27917287865/63d62106-139e-4dbb-b99d-ccaeb2fa4a52.jpg)
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
A USO veteran leads a team of USO entertainment rookies on the annual Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff USO tour to visit deployed troops this holiday season. Read full story![Joey Logano (USO photo)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130224071851im_/http://www.uso.org/assets/0/2147483669/2147483693/2147484529/27917287830/05edda12-d16c-44c2-b618-1b46e6716452.jpg)
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
NASCAR Sprint Series driver Joey Logano enjoyed his 2011 USO tour so much, he’s ready for another lap. Read full story![trace_adkins_03_450](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130224071851im_/http://www.uso.org/assets/0/2147483669/2147483693/2147484530/27917287535/27917287962/67fb6d73-1589-47c9-86cb-4c2f260adec6.jpg)
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Three days into his six-day USO tour to the Pacific, Trace Adkins has lifted the spirits of more than 1,000 airmen, soldiers, sailors and their families.Read full story![Trace Adkins](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130224071851im_/http://www.uso.org/assets/0/2147483669/2147483693/2147484529/27917287830/2d7f7110-e872-464b-9eef-a3c83e5e8e92.jpg)
Monday, November 26, 2012
Longtime USO supporter and tour veteran Trace Adkins will set out to once again lift the spirits of deployed troops and their families as he arrives in Japan today for a four-show tour. Read full story![meltzer2_321](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130224071851im_/http://www.uso.org/assets/0/2147483669/2147483693/2147484529/27917287830/1b404bef-7126-48f0-a9bc-32606ea02818.jpg)
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Brad Meltzer is a guy who has seen and heard a lot. The best-selling novelist moonlights as host of the popular History Channel series “Brad Meltzer’s Decoded,” which investigates and explains legends, myths and conspiracy theories. So when he was informed by peers and USO tour organizers that his first USO tour could be life-altering, he was a bit skeptical. Read full story![thrillwriters2012_6](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130224071851im_/http://www.uso.org/assets/0/2147483669/2147483693/2147484530/27917287535/27917287953/95e9c79f-d3f9-4c52-8b6d-b4e85f714645.jpg)
Friday, November 09, 2012
Deployed troops celebrated suspense as five of today’s most popular thriller authors offered up literary wisdom and a touch of home to troops on the “Operation Thriller III” USO Entertainment tour to the Middle East.Read full story![Spartacus actors Viva Bianca and Ellen Hollman. (Photo by Dave Gatley)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130224071851im_/http://www.uso.org/assets/0/2147483669/2147483693/2147484530/27917287535/27917287952/91900011-89d7-4614-8f77-08bb5b5a7855.jpg)
Thursday, November 08, 2012
The cast members of the Starz drama "Spartacus" deliver touches of home to deployed troops in the Middle East.Read full story