Pure Fiction. In the military, plans are briefed on a need-to-know basis. Up to the time when the actual operation commences a LSO does not have the need-to-know about impending air-strikes. The only thing they will be given is launch and recovery times, everything else is scuttlebutt.
that is why the Iranians moved all their air assets around in the past 24 hours....
just heard 10 straight EAMs go out in a row from Andrews AFB.