Many 22-year-olds head for spring break at the end of March. Ben Roethlisberger will go to Afghanistan and Iraq, where life is no day at the beach.
Roethlisberger, the Steelers' sensational rookie quarterback last season, will join a small group of NFL players on a nine-day USO tour of Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait at the end of the month. The group will visit military troops and help open the Pat Tillman Center, a USO facility in Afghanistan funded by the NFL.
"I'm looking forward to that," Roethlisberger said yesterday as he completed a second full week of workouts at the Steelers' UPMC facility.
"I'm excited to go over and see some of the troops over there, helping us. They support us and they make what we do seem so insignificant. We're just going to try to support them and have fun with it."
The USO tour will be March 29-April 7 with its main objective to open the center in honor of Tillman, a player who left the Arizona Cardinals to join the U.S. Rangers. He was killed last year in Afghanistan.
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