Found out!
Our special friends don’t host our troops. WTF.
45K US troops in the Middle East
Awesome interactive map https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=12AO9A22Cjkv3pG_tyiIx468a8WpqTaJU&femb=1&ll=31.58576809191053%2C35.89880940028268&z=7
Yet all we have in our special relationship’s country is a radar station and a missile defense site.
https://www.americansecurityproject.org/national-security-strategy/u-s-bases-in-the-middle-east/