I hope you're right, but if it goes to a Jury, it's ALWAYS a crap-shoot (especially if their from the Liberal voter-base side).
Since the accident happened at Fort A.P. Hill, I'm pretty sure a suit against the Army would wind up being tried in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria. There are some liberal pockets in Northern Virginia, but, on the whole, jury panels in that court tend to be conservative. That's one of the reasons it is DOJ's favorite court for trials involving national security issues.