Members from Tops in Blue perform in the base theater on Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Nov. 20, 2012, during their tour entitled “Listen.” The tour played rhythms of the Doobie Brothers, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Whitney Houston, and Maroon 5. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Marcus Morris)
The ladies of the Tops in Blue 2012 World Tour perform a country number during a show Nov. 12, 2012, at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea. For nearly 60 years, the Tops in Blue crew has traveled around the world to entertain and raise the moral of service members. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brigitte N. Brantley)
Tech. Sgt. Tonie Marshall, Tops in Blue vocalist and first sergeant, performs for a full house Nov. 20, 2012, during a show at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea. Tops in Blue travel around the world to entertain American troops, coalition forces and global audiences. Marshall is a radio frequencies transmission craftsman with the 849th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brigitte N. Brantley)
Members from Tops in Blue perform in the base theater on Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Nov. 20, 2012, during their tour entitled “Listen.” The tour played rhythms of the Doobie Brothers, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Whitney Houston, and Maroon 5. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Marcus Morris)
Airman 1st Class Wynton Warren plays a jazz piece on his alto saxophone alongside electric guitarist Senior Airman Kenneth Del Valle Ruiz during a Tops in Blue performance Nov. 20, 2012, at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea. This year’s world tour featured music from many popular artists including Maroon 5, the Doobie Brothers and the Zac Brown Band. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brigitte N. Brantley)
Senior Airman Joanell Jacques , Tops in Blues vocalist performs for Wolf Pack members in the base theater on Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Nov. 20, 2012.The Tops in Blue 2012 World Tour, entitled “Listen,” has traveled across the United States and over 20 different countries. Jacques is a radio frequency transmission journeyman from the 15th Air Support Operations Squadron Fort Stewart, GA. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Marcus Morris)
The Tops in Blue 2012 World Tour entertains the Wolf Pack during one of their nearly 130 shows this year at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Nov. 20, 2012. Although many of the tour’s stops are at stateside bases, they also visit many bases in Europe and Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brigitte N. Brantley)
Senior Airman Timothy Stentz, Tops in Blue vocalist, entertains the crowd during a performance Nov. 20, 2012, at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea. During their 10-month tour, Tops in Blue will perform at nearly 130 locations around the world. Stentz is a client systems apprentice from the 375th Communications Squadron at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brigitte N. Brantley)
Kunsan honor guard Airmen post the colors for the national anthem during Tops in Blue performance at the base theater on Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Nov. 20, 2012. Tops in Blue serves as an expeditionary entertainment unit to provide quality entertainment from within Air Force resources for the Air Force family, with priority to Air Force personnel stationed worldwide at remote and deployed locations.
(U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Marcus Morris)
Members from Tops in Blue dance for the Wolf Pack during their Nov. 20, 2012 show, at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea. As an expeditionary entertainment unit, they travel to military bases around the world to perform for military personnel and their families. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brigitte N. Brantley)
Airman 1st Class Jessica Pitts, Tops in Blues trumpet player performs in the base theater on Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Nov. 20, 2012. The team consists of 35 Airmen from different career fields from all over the Air Force. Pitts is a cyber systems operations apprentice from the 606th Air Control Squadron Spangdahlem AB, Germany. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Marcus Morris)
Airman 1st Class Alexander Allred, Tops in Blue member, keeps the crowd entertained on the keyboard during a show at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Nov. 20, 2012. This year’s theme, “Listen!,” encouraged the audience to listen to the music of life through the sounds they hear every day. Allred is a knowledge operations management journeyman from the 614th Air and Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brigitte N. Brantley)
Tech. Sgt. Joshua Tarrant , drummer for Tops in Blue performs during their tour entitled “Listen” in the base theater on Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Nov. 20, 2012. To be in Tops in Blue, members had to compete in a multilevel competition in order to be selected to go on a one year permissive temporary duty. Tarrant is a space systems operations craftsman from the 460th Operations Group, Detatchment 1 Buckley AFB, CO. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Marcus Morris)
Tech. Sgt. Tonie Marshall, Tops in Blue vocalist performs in the base theater on Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Nov. 20, 2012. To be in Tops in Blue members have to compete in a multilevel competition in order to be selected to go on a one year permissive temporary duty. Marshall is a radio frequency transmission craftsman from the 849th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Holloman AFB, NM. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Marcus Morris)
The Tops in Blue 2012 World Tour entertains the Wolf Pack during a performance Nov. 20, 2012, at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea. For nearly 60 years, the Tops in Blue crew has traveled around the world to entertain and raise the moral of service members. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brigitte N. Brantley)
Senior Airman Joleen Dedmon, left, and Staff Sgt Robin Elrod, Tops in Blue vocalists pull audience members to dance in the base theater on Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Nov. 20, 2012. At the end of the performance members of Tops in Blue and the Wolf Pack sang the Air Force song before ending the show. Dedmon is a dental assistant apprentice from the 944th Medical Squadron and Elrod is a cyrptologic language operator from the 303rd Intelligence Squadron Osan AB, Republic of Korea. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Marcus Morris)
11/21/2012 - KUNSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- Tops in Blue, one of the oldest and most widely traveled entertainment groups of its kind, made its way Nov. 20 to Kunsan Air Base to perform for the Wolf Pack.
The vocalists, musicians, dancers and technicians will perform close to 130 performances during their 10-month tour throughout the U.S. and more than 20 other countries.
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11/25/2012 1:31:24 AM ET This will have been the second tops in blues show I've seen in my 3 years of being in the military and to be perfectly frank it's still unimpressive. These men and women are definitely talented but they are simply not doing anything new or exiciting with their talents.
