Midnight Express pretty much nailed them.
Back in the early 1980s, one of my brother’s first assignments after graduating from West Point was to a base in Turkey. Military personnel were to wear civilian clothes off base, and there were no close-shave haircuts. They were supposed to look like tourists when off base.
I was naive back then and thought those precautions were a bit excessive to do in a country that was our ally until my brother told me that his predecessor had been killed there.
“Midnight Express pretty much nailed them.”
You sure you wanted to phrase it like that? lol