[George16]

I don't think it's just for advertising. The Armed Forces Entertainment brings varied types of people like bands, musicians, athletes, cheerleaders just to name a few to different bases around the world. For us here in Japan, I had seen many a bands perform for free for us onbase especially on special ocassion and holidays. During the superbowl, there's at least a couple of groups of cheerleaders in town visiting us.

It makes for a good PR moment but they really just wanted to thank the troops. Too bad you have reservations about their intent.