On my Acepedia User page, I've stated that I never understood the drama there. Maybe you should have a secretary of defense mention a missing pilot.
Well there wasn't that much drama there. They asked him to do it, he didn't and left the military and then they sent the Vulture to take him out. But thanks to a Demon Lord, Pops survived and because of that he was able to help Wardog escape Sand Island. So in a way Cipher helped defeat Belka twice. Just wanted to point that out even if we had already realized that.
No, I mean how Bartlett ties into the whole thing, and why the Sand Island was mistaken for traitors because of this incident.
Oh yeah, now I know what you're talking about. Seriously, how do you suspect the people that are the center of moral for your military, not to mention the reason why you're winning this war, of treason!?