Iron Mike Conference & Catering Center of Fort Bragg — Local services in Fort Liberty

Do NOT host any event here unless you want to be promptly kicked out by “Karen”.

My husband and I are dual military and were very excited to attend a ball with our friends from his unit. I rushed home from work, put effort into getting ready and grabbed an energy drink for the Ball since I was DD (here was my mistake). Once we arrived, I made no effort to hide my energy drink. There were no signs and no speech, from my view it was okay.

Halfway through the event, “Karen” - a middle aged woman in a blue shirt and glasses, guessing the manager- came over and SNATCHED my energy drink. I thought maybe she didn’t understand what it was but her only concern was that, “it’s a can and we don’t sell cans here” as she YANKED it from my hand with no option to finish it outside. I was salty but I wasn’t going to let it ruin my night, I lost a couple of bucks and some caffeine.

Continuing into the night, each CMD TM put their drink of choice into the Grog… one unit decided to put cans of beer. The upstanding person that I am, I kindly (and slightly jokingly) pointed out that they had cans and someone should grab them. I was not loud, I was not rude, purely a comment directed at my table. However Karen overheard and did not appreciate the humor and proceeded to tell a random CPT who then tracked down my husband’s 1SG. The 1SG approached me to ask what happened since “Karen” had complained that I was being unnecessarily rude. I explained and the 1SG was just as confused as I was. When the 1SG tried to reason with “Karen”, she only wanted to KICK MY HUSBAND AND ME OUT AND THREATENED TO CALL THE MPs. I did nothing wrong, but seriously? The MPs? Not to mention that we overpaid for the ball tickets in the first place for trash DFAC food, dried out commissary cake, and water. We didn’t want to cause a scene, so we gathered our friends outside for a group picture and called it an early night.

I’m not sure what “Karen’s” actual name is but someone that disrespectful and arrogant should NOT be working at an event venue nor with military members. I was one of the few members not in uniform, she was only rude towards me, not those in uniform/that she knew were military. The money wasted from her was nothing compared to the memories we...

Too many things went wrong. There were things we requested but did not get, even on down to the floor plan. Communication was hard in the beginning, I reached out by phone and email about things and no one got back to me until a month or so later. The day of my event the floor plan was completely set up wrong, we requested microphones but never received them, the room we chose and paid towards they switched out and gave to someone else without our knowledge, the condiments we were told we would get, the day of our event we were told otherwise. Some of the staff seemed unfriendly. The day before our event we reserved a time for an hour and upon arrival, we were told we didn't have anything reserved even though we did. As a result the room was not set up the way it was supposed to be. We had to push chairs and tables out of the way, than we were harassed about our hour going over, even though we had to do additional things that we weren't supposed to have to do as a result of them not having the room set up the way they said they would. No I would not recommend this place for any event, especially a wedding. Weddings are already stressful, and this place added on to it by how...

Thanksgiving dinner was nice. This was our second time attending. We really enjoy not having to cook or clean up after a meal. The dining hall was decorated and tables were set very nice. There was a mixup in beginning on our assigned table but was quickly corrected. On a whole it was a nice meal. We each got a ticket for a Mimosa! But…..always room for suggestions….Some cons were the pecan pie was gone within the first 1/2 hour, the turkey would have been better on the carving bar, along with the prime rib (which was cooked perfectly)and the ham(which also was delicious). Turkey looked like it was processed not carved from a turkey. Sweet potato casserole needs a new recipe. Would have liked to see more traditional deserts instead of cake. We would definitely attend again just for the convenience of not having to cook! ...