“Sergeant At Arms, FIX BAYONETS !!!”
When we were living in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, there WAS a Saudi "guard" at our front gate. He was sitting aloft on a high, wide pillar, "guarding" the gate.
He was obviously bored outta his gourd as he had one boot off his foot and he was PICKING HIS FEET with his bayonet.
Haha. You KNOW I could NOT have made that up.
The KSA hires armies to protect their petroleum and natural gas fields. In the early 1980's they used Rae Dik Dae Lim, South Korean military and petroleum workers, to protect their fields.
I noticed that they were all young, mid-twenties and VERY fit, though VERY short.
They got into a baseball game with other men, Filippinos...and that was HILARIOUS as the Korean soldiers didn't have a clue as to what the game really was. But they had fun. They laughed, fell on the ground, hooted and hollered. It was probably good for them to do that.