When I was in AIT at Ft. Leonard Wood in 1995, they had the Sec. of Defense (the one before Cohen) come through (I think to look at the Haitians being trained as policemen we had there at the time). We were under severe penalty to NOT badmouth Clinton. When he rolled through our class (I was training to be a 51-Tango), the only one he spoke to was a Jamaican Sailor who was in our class.
When bubba visited an overseas base (forget exactly where) they penned in the troops after disarming them.
And it wasn’t easy finding troops willing to be props.