People like CIA Riyadh COS John Brennan saw to the rising star Barry making a trip or two to Kenya for pictures, talks with BHO Sr.'s family and establishing "street cred" there.
Barry's stepmom SA Dunham and the CIA also saw to his garnering similar international experience if not credentials by sending him to Pockystahn. Barry's Indonesian experiences (e.g., with the tranny nanny, Turdi, were not the makings of a future US Senator or President.
Compare GHWBush's rescue at sea at the cost of his Avenger aircraft and the lives of his two crewmen. But the picture established cred for "Skin" as the lanky pilot was known. The USS Finback name, whose submarine crew that rescued GHWB became a lifelong association for him. Later in life, the fishing vessel Finback would figure prominently in The Fuddy Hoax faked death of CIA asset "Loretta Fuddy," an event that was coincidentally beneficial to Barry, as Fuddy saw to the production of a fraudulent Long Form Birth Certificate for him.
A similar picture of a staged shell-damaged prop, shown as if "Skin" brought the damaged plane to a safe landing is also reflective of the Deep State's desires to portray their bloodline/hierarchy family children as having demonstrated superhuman skills.
Barry and his purported-but-not-actual bio-dad BHO, Sr., and Barry's step grandparents (Toot and Stanley) all received three-letter agency "farm" training. This is all de rigeur for someone whose pant leg would be noted as "perfectly creased" in the media by "conservative" (*cough, cough*) David Brooks.