"Gig 601Xl Builder" wrote in message
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Larry Dighera wrote:

You can criticize the military all you want, but the reason they
practice this is to protect our resources like cities. By making a
visual ID on a plane, and get its attention, they might be able to
discern the intent of a pilot who entered an airspace where they didn't
belong.


That's not what happened in this instance.

Pretty damn close though. The F-16 pilot said he closed on the aircraft to
identify it.


I believe Mr. Dighera's point was the pilot had not entered an airspace
where he didn't belong in this instance.