When I was in the military we went to Muscat, Oman for a few days... the CO of my ship gave us all a very honest assessment of Arab culture and let me tell you, we went about in groups of 4-5, dressed like the 1890s, men and women alike... stuck together like grapes, and were in by dusk.
In Obama’s military, he’d probably get his command yanked immediately and shipped off to Alaska for doing that.
Glad you made it out of that hellhole ok, lol. Fleet Week in NYC is sooooooooo much better - although it was cancelled this year.