Stupid mainstream nonsense. I’ve been to Al Asad a few times in 2005-2006. A huge base! Incredible runway. (Good Pizza by the way). There was every branch of service..except maybe Coast Guard. DIA, NSA, CIA and likely a few more 3 letter agencies. I have no doubt that anyone who should not be filmed was not.. Stupid snowflake mentality. Should this nonsense be a surprise?
I was at Balad Air Base in 2004. We had Coast Guard personnel performing Military Customs Inspections (MCI) duties for everyone rotating back to the US.
The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard combat operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Among other things in the article, Coast Guard units handle port security.
I was in both the Army and the Foreign Service and those three letter agencies were not there either....