I recently chatted with my older brother, a Naval Academy graduate, about the Signal chat reported in the Atlantic. [View all]

He graduated from the Naval Academy a long time ago and flew an A-7 attack bomber over North Vietnam for six weeks late in the war.

This is what he had to say:
"So first, The Atlantic erred in calling it info from a War Plan. They do exist but are very high level and don’t have the level of combat detail that Hegseth posted. That info would be typical of the details of a Strike Plan. With the media calling it a War plan, the actors can truthfully deny they released details of a War Plan. Regarding the actual details, they sound typical of a Strike Plan. I'm appalled that (1) they were talking about all this on an unsecured (even if encrypted in transmission) communications and (2) they claim the info was not classified and that if it had been revealed in realtime would not have endangered the mission or the operators making the attacks. Total BS."

"[His] expertise: 20 years Navy officer (pilot); 20 years working with DoD on defense issues; TS clearance with some compartment access at times."

I am posting his message with his permission.

Additional information from my brother received after I made this post:
"TW, those texts should still be classified, not as critical now that time has passed, but still by knowing when the F-18s launched and when they struck, given the constraints of the cruising water in the area one could get a pretty good idea of where the carrier was. Not good…."