 Aaron Tippin is an American country music artist who continues to give up his holidays to visit deployed troops. I've got to show my homage to you guys. I have been doing this a long time. It started with Bob Hope, you know, 1990, person call. And, man, I think I've enjoyed a life of freedom thanks to the warriors that are defending this country. You know, it's a very small price for me to take a few days out of my life to come say thanks. The only thing on his mind is making sure that for just one moment, he'll make service members forget where they are. You know, I want to take it far away from you. I want to take it far away from you and make you laugh or make you have a good time. If you can sing along, you know, some of these old songs, that's what I came to do. I want you to have a moment like you're back home, not here, you know. And so, like I said, damn, I'm going to take place in my show and I'm going to drag you back here to reality. The rest of the time, we're going to pretend like we're back home. But what I realized as I'm always doing that is you're already self inspired. That is the people you are. Military, and I don't know if it's the caliber of people that come into it anyway, or after you're into it, you become that. I'm not sure which that is, but you are self inspired. And what really is great is when you leave the military, that never leaves you. That I can recall because as I see in life, when you return home, you become a credit to your community. He traveled all over southern Afghanistan visiting eight different small Ford operating bases and combat outposts, playing two shows a day. Tech Sergeant Jason David, Southern Afghanistan.