You utterly missed my point.
As well, so what, a bunch of sailors had a port call in a UAE city. Big deal.
Let's not discuss this further you and I. ; )
The “hauling up” ceremony for the Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist (ESWS) and Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist (EAWS) pennants occurred shortly after Vinson moored pierside in the United Arab Emirates’ port of Jebel Ali near the city of Dubai.
In my 4 years on board a United States Navy Aircraft Carrier we moored in only one foreign port one time and that nation was a member of NATO. If people can't understand how blatant foolish this was then they very well deserve the leaders they so blindly follow. Some of us prefer erroring on the side of caution and remember mistakes of the past. Others simply think oh well things happen I guess.