Editor's Note: After getting back from a whirlwind trip through Iraq for WWE's Tribute to the Troops misson, Joey Styles sent in these pictures of his journey. Click on the photo to receive more information, or visit his Tribute to the Troops galley in his profile photo section for more.

Many more photos of WWE Superstars in Iraq are available in the Tribute to the Troops photo section.

For complete coverage of Tribute to the Troops, visit the Tribute section on WWE.com. Also, Leave your holiday messages for the troops in the Forums on WWE Universe.

WWE's Tribute to the Troops special airs Saturday, Dec. 20, at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.

The Tribute to the Troops event is over and everyone seems physically, mentally and emotionally drained.

To me, the event felt like a combination of WrestleMania and an Orginal ECW pay-per-view. The enthusiasm of everyone at WWE and the Troops matched that of Wrestlemania and the intimacy of five thousand rabid fans where you can make eye contact with every soldier felt like the Original ECW.

In what seemed like only a few moments, the event rushed by and before we knew it, our Superstars were doing media interviews, the hardest working crew in entertainment was breaking down and loading tons of production equipment onto trucks that will transport the multimedia masterpiece to our C-17 cargo plane.

In the meantime, I am sending back this event recap and our phenomenal photographers

Last night, resourceful and charming WWE television producer, Heather Mitchell, informed me, cameraman Sean Sellman and still photographer Kristin Prouty that she had somehow arranged for us to be fortunate enough to attend and document the opening of a new school in Western Baghdad, and that we would be traveling off base on the ground or "outside the wire."

I had no idea what "outside the wire" meant until I was instructed that I had to wear a kevlar helmet and vest and asked,

"What is your blood type, sir?"
"Excuse me."
"I need to know your blood type, sir."

"WHAT!?"

At this point, four fully-armored Humvees each manned by a driver, a medic and a gunner pull up with our "tour guide," Lt. Col. Monty Willoughby, a man in his mid-40s, shaved bald and seemingly made of ice. For those

While visiting Forward Operating Bases in the Baghdad area, Joey Styles spoke to  Army Cpt. Andrew Graziano of Charlotte, N.C., about WWE's Tribute to the Troops tour.

GRAZIANO: My grandfather started serving in the Army for World War II, and jumped into Normandy. My dad served in the Army for 24 years, as well as my older brother, and my uncle for the last 20 years has also served.

JOEY: And what did it mean to the troops for the WWE Superstars to show up today?

GRAZIANO: The soldiers out here … they just want to work hard, and they don’t expect much. But when they receive something like this, they get really excited about it. They’ve been talking about it for several months.

When they heard you were coming out to do a live show, and coming out to their remote

Hi everyone. This is Joey aboard the C-17 and I have never seen anything like this in my life. No commercial flight even remotely compares to the inside of a C-17 cargo plane fitted with airline seats in the middle and solid steel jump seats lining both sides.

Bags are hanging everywhere as each one of us, besides having our one suitcase, was handed a sleeping bag and a WWE duffel bag, with toiletries and such. Behind us are just pallets and pallets of equipment, including everything we need to set up the ring, and an HD video wall. So, for the first time, the Armed Forces attending Tribute to the Troops will be treated to the full WWE TV experience, and should make for an unbelievable special on NBC, and of course, there will be clips on WWE.com.

I can not stress enough the bedlam of

Good morning Universe.

After waking up this morning in one of Saddam's palaces and having breakfast with the troops, Randy Orton, Chris Jericho, Big Show and I flew on Blackhawk choppers from our home base to four FOBs (or Forward Operating Bases) in the "Green Zone" (or the International Zone, or "IZ" in Baghdad.

Yesterday, 1,023 new members of the Iraqi Police (or "IP") graduated from training. What made this event significant is that these new IP members were trained by IP members, not the U.S. Military. Just a year ago, Iraqis training other Iraqis to secure their own country was inconceivable.

A great deal of the security forces here in Baghdad are Ugandan and Peruvians. The Peruvians seem more at ease while the Ugandans look ready for action at all times.

The Superstars pointed out