Toby KeithToby Keith has made numerous visits to our military heroes overseas, merely the vocalizer also takes time to include them when he's meeting fans backstage at his concerts.

"I tin can't get to them all then I try to brand them feel as important as I tin can from the stage. Nosotros attempt to let 100 [fans] dorsum. If there's military, we always let them back because that's all I tin can give them is my service," says Toby. "They gave service to me, and all I can requite them back is whatever service that I have."

Toby adds that those with military ID who visit his I Beloved Bar and Grill restaurants tin can also enjoy a free burger and beer on the singer. "If they come up to my show, I get them dorsum phase. If they come downwardly front during 'American Soldier,' I pull them upwards on phase. I make sure to acknowledge them and honor them as much I tin."

In spite of the current climate, with conflicts happening in more than ane role of the earth, Toby asserts that he'll go along to support our troops in any way he tin can, whether in state of war or "peace" time.

"Some day the wars will be over," he says, "and nosotros'll exist in a peace fourth dimension, right? We'll be in a down fourth dimension. We'll be between wars. We're either at war or we're between wars, we're never at peace. The whole existence of flesh, we're never at peace. Next fourth dimension we're between wars -- and that is not an piece of cake topic to bang on -- I'll still be doing this for my troops. I was doing it before. It just didn't come to the forefront ... I've done 140 shows in the desert. Yous encounter very petty press on the national news about me doing that. It'south because we don't go out and ask for that press. We quietly keep the USO tours -- for two weeks every years for seven years. We quietly practise our matter, and we don't go seek ...we're not firing out Twitters or whatever information technology is, or Facebook stuff. If y'all want to get to the USO www.uso.com web site [yous tin can] read about our journey in our diary. Me getting to become and see their faces light upwardly and be on a base of operations with 25 guys in the middle of nowhere on the Islamic republic of pakistan edge is all I need for a advantage."

Ane affair Toby doesn't need is people questioning his lack of actual war machine feel. "If I've got a guy who'south popping off going, 'Oh, you do all this troop stuff, merely you ain't e'er enlisted' ... I didn't. There wasn't a typhoon, but my dad did, and I've been on the front line a lot. I've been on some bases on some front end lines that a lot of enlisted people haven't. I take soldiers and marines [ask me], 'Where'd you become?' And I'll tell them, and they'll become, 'Dang, I didn't fifty-fifty go up at that place!' And they'll ask me questions: 'Was it unsafe? What did it look similar? How far from air back up were you?' And these are guys wearing uniforms right now. I don't look at that as a service as much every bit I expect at information technology [equally] an chance for me. I go to go do stuff nobody gets to do. I become to have pictures and see the world that even Goggle box cameras don't get to see sometimes."

Toby has merely released his latest video,' 'Cryin' for Me (Wayman'south Song),' a tribute to Toby'due south longtime friend, the late bassist and basketball game player Wayman Tisdale.