[Billthedrill]

Bovine feces. Strategic war plans are not broadcast to pilots, especially not in the clear.

[Charles Martel]

Strategic war plans are not broadcast to pilots, especially not in the clear.

This sounds like something intended for U.N. ears, but you never can tell...

[A Texan]

I agree, I'm not military or ex-military but I believe there is a chain-of-command. I don't think our Generals or Admirals are calling up pilots(rankings anywhere between Captain and Luitenent) on the radio and telling them a week in advance our military plans.

I think we have breifing rooms for this and hopefully a more criptick code system then bar-b-que slag.

[aBootes]

Strategic war plans are not broadcast to pilots, especially not in the clear.

True. But pilots do seem to have a great deal of trouble keeping their mouths shut -- it's something about having an ego larger than your brain. I cannot begin to tell you the number of interesting tidbits I've heard on single channel transmissions. So while I don't think it was intentionally passed to pilots in the clear, I can sort of conceive of the possibility that there are some pilots who know something, or are guessing based on inside knowledge, and then merrily blabbing away.