Yokota Airman Adam Sims

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  • By Airman 1st Class Katrina R. Menchaca
  • 374th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
Yokota Air Base, Japan --  One of Yokota's Talented Airmen returned with Tops in Blue, the Air Force's premiere entertainment showcase, to perform, Dec. 29-30, 2009.

Airman 1st Class Adam Sims, a 374th Airlift Wing Public Affairs broadcaster, has been with Tops in Blue for the past ten months.

The decision to audition for Tops in Blue was not something Airman Sims planned to do so early in his military career.

"I had a conversation with the performance director and the conversation lasted an hour. In that hour I learned so much about myself and Tops in Blue and I thought to myself, well if the program can teach me this in an hour what can it teach me in a year?" said Airman Sims. "So, that night I went to my room and sent in an application as a video guy, not as a pianist, and they called me the next morning."

Although he has lived out of a suitcase for the past 10 months, Airman Sims said that he would miss all of the people that have become very much like his brothers and sisters when his one-year stint with Tops in Blue is complete.

Airman Sims encourages those interested in Tops in Blue to audition.

"If you have any desire in your heart to challenge yourself and join Tops in Blue, then you should do it, because you don't know what you are capable of at all. You have no idea what you are capable of as an Airman, as a performer. You may not think that you have what it takes to be in Tops in Blue but they will see things in you that you don't see in yourself," said Airman Sims.

Airman Sims said that in Tops in Blue, the staff see things in their performers they are good at and then they put those performers where they best fit.

"We have people who tried out for singer and now they play the piano," added Airman Sims. "We have one person who tried out to play the bass guitar and now he's a singer."

Per their official website, 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 while simultaneously promoting community relations, supporting recruiting efforts and serving as ambassadors for the United States of America and the United States Air Force.

For more information on Tops in Blue visit, http://www.topsinblue.com/