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Cobra Staff member and Golf Entertainer/World Long Drive Champion, Dan Boever, is visiting Iraq on a goodwill tour to meet with the troops. This is the fourteenth in a series of updates from his travels.

December 7, 2009 After flying halfway around the world, nine days of non-stop activity and 28 hours of travel back to my home in Springfield, Mo., I have been pretty useless for the past few days.

I am so very glad I went and like all the guys who made the journey, I am thrilled we were able to bring some happiness into a few people’s lives for the short time we were there.

It happened because so many people supported us along the way. I would encourage you to check out the Troops First Foundation, which includes Rick Kell, his daughter and a host of dedicated men and women who are impacting many of our troops and their families.

Cobra Staff member and Golf Entertainer/World Long Drive Champion, Dan Boever, is visiting Iraq on a goodwill tour to meet with the troops. This is the thirteenth in a series of updates from his travels.

December 4, 2009 Today starts our final day in Iraq. It would prove to be like every other day we have had: long and filled with a lot of unknown.

There has been an overall theme for us throughout our days in this country when troops would ask, “Where are you going next?” All we could ever say was, “Hey, I don’t know where I am going to be an hour from now.”

Part of that was security related and part was just a need to be flexible. There are a lot of parts working at once to move us and set up our daily schedule so we had to just show up and be ready. The troops would laugh at us and say, “Welcome to our world!”

Cobra Staff member and Golf Entertainer/World Long Drive Champion, Dan Boever, is visiting Iraq on a goodwill tour to meet with the troops. This is the twelfth in a series of updates from his travels.

December 2, 2009 We toured around Al Asad Airbase today. Al Asad is the largest U.S. military airbase in the western province of Al Anbar. The base is located roughly 100 miles west of Baghdad. We were told Al Asad means “The Lion” and that it was once housed part of Saddam’s Air Force.

The base has a 15-mile perimeter and because of the vast openness surrounding it, attacks have been infrequent of late. It seems the knuckleheads will still try and shoot something in there but our folks have made it very difficult to do so. There aren’t many places to hide outside the wall.

Our first stop took us to see the medical choppers and meet the guys who flew them. I tried to get in one, but the model they had seemed to be a bit tight. Budget cuts I guess.

Cobra Staff member and Golf Entertainer/World Long Drive Champion, Dan Boever, is visiting Iraq on a goodwill tour to meet with the troops. This is the eleventh in a series of updates from his travels.

December 2, 2009 Today is Thanksgiving. It is a day with a long-standing tradition of eating piles of turkey and watching football. We did that before the day was over, but in ways that were not the norm.

It was checkout time at the JVB (Joint Visitors Bureau) because we would be catching a C-130 and traveling west to Al Asad Airbase. As was the case for most of the trip we had to maintain a certain degree of flexibility with our departure times. We had originally been scheduled to leave early and get to Al Asad and have Thanksgiving lunch with the troops. Those plans changed and we headed to Camp Victory for our meal.

On the drive over we spotted a large group of soldiers playing flag football. Because we had plenty of time before lunch we decided to stop and watch. There were multiple teams and when we got there they were playing the championship game.