Gary and the Lt. Dan  Band have been performing for troops in Korea the past few days as part of their Summer USO tour.   On June 27th, the band performed for soldiers, families and friends at Camp Casey.  Below are a few photos of the show taken by Diane Howard.

According to Diane, Major General Morgan presented the Lt. Dan Band with a little memento from Warrior Country.

All  photos of  Gary Sinise (above) taken by Diane Howard.  Used with permission.

On June 29th, the band performed for more than 1000 soldiers at Youngsan Garrison.  Click hereto read Cpl. Choi Keun-woo’s coverage of the show and see additional photos.  This shot of Jeff, Kimo and Gary (immediately below) is a sample:

(U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Choi Keun-woo)

And finally, check out additional behind-the-scenes photographs and commentary about the tour by Gary’s friend and co-founder of Lt. Dan Band, Kimo Williams at On the Road with Kimo Williams. 

Photo of Kimo Williams taken by Diane Howard.  Used with permission.

Thanks to youtuber SJulianYZ125 quality video of the Lt. Dan Band show at Kunsan on June 24th is available.  A few selections are embedded below inlcuding a performance of “Baba O’Riley.”

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On June 10th Gary joined the Operation Gratitude volunteers at the National Guard Armory in Van Nuys to assemble care packages and send greetings of love and respect to U.S. service members deployed overseas.

Operation Gratitude is the California-based 501(c)(3) non-profit, volunteer organization that annually sends 100,000+ care packages of snacks, entertainment items and personal letters of appreciation addressed to individually named U.S. Service Members deployed in hostile regions such as Iraq and Afghanistan and on Naval ships at sea.   Its mission is to lift morale, bring a smile to a service member’s face and to express the appreciation and support of the American people.  Since its inception in March 2003, Operation Gratitude has shipped more than 450,000 packages to American military deployed overseas.

Below are a few photographs of Gary with volunteers and service members taken during his visit (click on photos to enlarge).

To see all the photographs of Gary’s visit and to learn more about the efforts of Operation Gratitude, please visit their website: click here,

Gary has generously agreed to participate and appear on “Troop-a-thon,” Move America Forward’s campaign to send the largest ever shipment of care packages to U.S. troops serving overseas.

On June 25th, MAF will host its 2nd annual “Troop-a-thon” titled “Honor Their Service.” During the 8-hour event that will be broadcast on the internet, radio and TV viewers are encouraged to sponsor care packages for the troops as the guests and hosts discuss various topics related to supporting our troops. Last year, viewers donated more than $1.5 million to send care packages to troops.

Additional information about the event, including other guests, and eventually, the program schedule is available at Troop-a-thon 2009.

As some of you may have already known, Gary attended a USO function hosted by Hollywood Reporter and Editor Elizabeth Guider in Beverly Hills last month. Video of Gary speaking at this event recently became available and is embedded below:

Some terrific still photographs of Gary at this event are available at CSI:Fanatic click here.

And while we are on the topic of Gary’s commitment to the USO, he and the Lt. Dan Band will soon be off on their USO Summer Tour (June 21st through July 5th) to perform for troops in Korea and Okinawa. We wish the band a safe journey and hope the men and woman in uniform have a fantastic time at the shows!

Since the USVAP fundraiser at Joe’s in April, Gary has been busy as usual.  A few loyal Gary fans and friends have graciously shared their photographs from various events, and despite our lag time getting the photos uploaded to the News page, we hope you enjoy them just the same:

With thanks to Glenda Cain, photographs taken of the Lt. Dan Band performance at the Steppenwolf Theatre Gala on April 19, 2009:

From Liz Wegman we have photographs of Gary and M*A*S*H’s Jamie Farr taken in May at the OIC warehouse. Thank you, Liz!

And saving the best for last ~ fantastic photographs from Virginia Hagin taken at the Lt. Dan Band show at Ft. Riley in May:

Thanks again to Glenda, Liz and Virginia for sharing their photographs!