Proceeds from January 21 concert will go to fund for military personnel injured, families of those killed in bombing.

Kid Rock plans to turn his January 21 concert in Norfolk, Virginia, into a fund-raiser for military personnel injured and families of those killed during the terrorist attack on the USS Cole.

The Detroit rap-rocker will donate all his profits from the show to the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, a private nonprofit charity group headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, that recently established a USS Cole Memorial Fund to aid victims of the bombing, October 12 in Yemen.

"Here at home, it can be easy to forget that there are Americans in uniform all over the world putting themselves in harm's way every day," Kid Rock said in a statement issued Friday (December 15). "It's something I often find myself thinking about when I look at my son  imagining the folks in the service who are working hard and making sacrifices to protect our country."

In addition to raising money for the USS Cole Memorial Fund, Kid Rock will also make tickets to the show available to all military personnel and their families at half price, and will visit with the USS Cole's officers and crew stationed in Norfolk.

Kid Rock decided to make the previously announced show a USS Cole benefit after hearing that his "American Bad Ass" was played on the destroyer's PA system as the ship was towed out of the Port Aden harbor on October 29, the statement said.

Seventeen crewmembers were killed and 39 others injured in the bombing of the USS Cole, a vessel stationed in Norfolk as part of the USS George Washington Battle Group. It was deployed to Yemen on August 8.

Kid Rock will launch a brief headlining tour with Fuel and Buckcherry on January 17 in Greenville, South Carolina.