[Harrison Bergeron]

"A very real possibility, but a bit extravagant isn't it?"

Not at all. The transponder time may have already belonged to the Army, and the information cannot, I repeat not be classified if it is moving through an open channel. This is either disinformation or a feed of clips for the daily Pentagon news briefings. Given the nature of the medium, I suspect the latter.

[thescourged1]

The Govt./military has used civilian transponders for some time, years in fact. Pentagon briefs on the random or established network feeds is a possibility too. There is a LOT of random traffic from the Clark Belt, to include reports from journalists in the field sending to their parent news agencies. Also file footage going from the major news broadcasters to their various affiliate stations.