wrote:

"There were some operational security concerns revealed by this
person who had knowledge but appeared as a public citizen, which we
think was out of line. The disclosure of that information could go
directly to national security concerns."

This unfortunate F-18 pilot will probably be relegated to flying a desk in
the Navy after pointing out what all of us on the civilian side of aviation
already know - namely that one could get an IFR clearance to a nearby
airport, turn at the last minute, then blah, blah, blah...

Any one of us on the civy side could have made the exact same comments.

--
Peter