This reminds me of a story......
There I was, no shit real world, Arabian Sea. We were about to go feet wet into Pakistan and the F-16's had pushed forward, I was left on the fight deck of the KC-10 and I was asked to leave the cockpit for a crew landing briefing that was about 30 minutes out. I don't KC-10, so gladly I left for the 5 minute game-plan huddle and then they opened the door again. An American continent this large had never been where we were going, much less landed Vipers and KC-10's at said location, we hadn't even had interaction with their military at this level in 10 years (when this occurred) and had no idea what to expect. The -10 crew was nervous, we are were a little, and their game-plan involved going as fast as they could at the lowest altitude. I asked very respectably what they were trying to accomplish with the inherent danger of all of it, they all shrugged their shoulders and told me that was what they were told to do. 69" in a vault would have told them differently. We made it and had our passports promptly confiscated, but thats another story.