moore obviously didn't grow up, in either the officer corps(of any branch) or the aviation professional communities - or he would remember you never run your mouth about another man's operation or flight. At least, not until the board of inquiry's over and the finding is published - again, simple and common courtesy because you weren't there and weren't in that man's shoes..
Possibly, I missed you providing the "explanation of 'dirtbaghood'" accruing to this officer. I've been busy this week at work. Or, possibly 'wmoorenotina16cockpit' missed it.
Overreaction? No, I really don't think so. It's been all too much the rage these past years to toss out gratuitous cheap shots - especially when all you need to do is wait for the official finding to publish as is required.
Too much dignitas. . . Too much trouble. . .?

Ouch. Brake failure?

I feel sorry for the jock who was flying that F-16. I hope it was an equipment failure and not pilot error. It just proves the old '60s bumper sticker, "sh-t happens". I'd have thought he had plenty of runway to play with, but maybe he landed long and hot. I can't be the ONLY one who does that on occasion. He certainly proved that F-16's aren't off road vehicles, eh?

I was at Sun 'n Fun back in 1974 or 75 and saw a Marine officer flying a Harrier demo do a gear up from a low hover no more than 30 feet from the spectator rope. I mean to tell you he was really up close and personal with the crowd. The colonel who was on the microphone was narrating the flight demonstration showing just how quickly the gear would go up and down by saying, "gear up, gear down, gear up, gear down...". The pilot set it down on "gear up" instead of "gear down". It's a good thing he set it down as gently as he did because it could have gotten really messy. This isn't a third party story. I actually saw it with my own eyes when he rocked it from tail pipe to just past midship on the grass. He immediately gave it go-around power and flew off up and backwards away from the crowd. At the most critical point he was a good 15-20 degrees nose down no more than 5 feet off the ground drifting towards the spectators. I ran. Funny thing is I never read anything in any of the aviation rags or the local newspapers relating to the incident. I shudder to think what could have happened had he damaged some nozzles and rendered the Harrier uncontrollable.

I'm always amazed at the frequency of incidents and accidents at air shows. I think it was the next year when Dwayne Cole lost his wife in a wing walking accident at Sun 'n Fun.

The word embarrassing is a cheap shot? Wow. There's no doubt no matter what the cause that officer probably got out of that cockpit feeling like did that just happen? That's embarrassment. No one in America and I mean no one takes cheap shots at the US Military.

When I saw this picture, I thought "I hope the pilot is okay and that this incident is not a career ender for him/her."
I'm ex-USAF enlisted (1964-1968) though in 1991 I got my private pilot certificate and ultimately became a CFI. Having analyzed/investigated a few of these mishaps, I shudder at runway excursions and gear up landings and do everything I can to sensitize pilots to them.