I flew with an American who flew the F-22 and went to Stanford. I forget his name but I could look it up.
He claimed he was still in the Reserves and went to Bahrain one weekend a month for Drill Weekend. I asked how he gets off that weekend and he said the US and UAE have an agreement that allows Reservist to attend Drill Weekend.
I was surprised but everything sounded in the ballpark. I never checked his claims but I wonder if this is the same guy.
A bigger question should have been what’s a guy from Stanford and was smart and good enough to fly the Raptor doing at Emirates? If I wasn’t so tired and fatigued I guess that should have set off alarm bells but at the time I didn’t really care.