Thanks for your service!
When I've been carrier-deployed in the Gulf, we got the same stuff. Coke, Pepsi, Mt. Dew, 7-Up, etc. all with Arabic lettering of the logos, all in those old-fashioned pull tabs cans, and all sweetened with sugar. Some of the younger sailors would comment that the soda tastes funny. I'd reply, "This is what it's supposed to taste like!"
And Fanta orange. Saw a lot of that. The Arabs drink that stuff like water!
the reason they tasted funny to me when I was in the Gulf was that they alwyas seemed to have a metallic taste to them, probably because I don’t think those Pepsi cans were aluminum.