Hooters Girls Visit Troops in Iraq over Thanksgiving Holiday

Hooters Girls Visit Troops in Iraq over Thanksgiving Holiday

ATLANTA, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Six Hooters Girls are spending their Thanksgiving holiday overseas visiting thousands of troops stationed in Iraq. Hooters partnered with Pro Sports MVP to coordinate the tour alongside country music band BrokeDown Cadillac, who will be performing during a 9 day morale, welfare and recreation tour.

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Nationally acclaimed Hooters Girls Stephanie Belknap, from Orlando, FL; LeAngela Davis, from Columbus, OH; Raechel Holtgrave, from Columbia, MO; Sara Hoots, Selma, TX; Sara McCollum, from Atlanta, GA and Heather Brady, from Killeen, TX, whose father, an Army BlackHawk Pilot, will be one of the soldiers visited on the tour. The Hooters Girls will reach thousands of military personnel while participating in autograph signings, meet & greets, hospital visits, evening performances with BrokeDown Cadillac and a Thanksgiving Day Celebration.

This is the second time Hooters Girls have made a trip overseas to visit the troops. Hooters is very active all year in support of the military through various promotions. For the past 6 years Hooters restaurants has participated in Operation: Calendar Drop and has collectively sent over 100,000 calendars to military personnel overseas along with a note of appreciation during the holidays. Hooters also has donated over $100,000 to Operation Homefront, an organization that provides emergency assistance and morale to our troops and their families, through the Tom Valentine Fund. Thomas J. Valentine, a Navy SEAL troop chief, was killed during a training exercise Feb. 13, 2008.

Hooters of America, Inc. is the franchisor and operator of over 450 Hooters restaurants in 42 states and 26 foreign countries. The first Hooters opened in 1983 in Clearwater, Florida. Hooters is well-known for its brand of food and fun, featuring a casual beach-theme atmosphere, a menu that features seafood, sandwiches and Hooters nearly world famous chicken wings, and service provided by the All-American cheerleaders, the Hooters Girls. For more information about Hooters visit www.hooters.com.

BrokeDown Cadillac - BrokeDown Cadillac is a 5-piece modern country band fronted by Atlanta native, Corri English, and her counterpart, Randy Dunham. Veterans of stage performance, BrokeDown Cadillac's live show is electrifying. The band, a tight collection of seasoned players, rarely offer people a chance to sit down, with their string of upbeat, toe-tapping numbers commandeering fans to the dance floor. Corri and Randy have written over two dozen songs for this project, five of which have recently been used in the 2009 Disney box office hit, "Race to Witch Mountain," starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. The two, joined by their backing band, Danny Reuland on drums, Don Ian on lead guitar, and Jeff LeGore on bass, were also included in a performance sequence of the movie, playing in a honky-tonk bar.

Pro Sports MVP, a Colorado Springs, Colorado based company, is a full-service sports and entertainment marketing firm which develops and implements corporate marketing programs and provides marketing services for over one thousand of the world's most recognizable celebrities. www.prosportsmvp.com

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CONTACT: Alexis Aleshire, Public Relations Manager, Hooters of America,
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