Bingo. Even if he did, it was with a beefed-up security team.
There was a political commentator I used to follow years ago and he was in his 40’s or so and he volunteered as a civilian to go to Iraq to help after the initial war. He actually did go on a mission out of the Green Zone to see what it was like and he knew the danger but went anyway. Now that I was impressed by. He had on everything on a soldier would have including a sidearm and rifle that he got a crash course in.