Didn't mean to be snotty. My apologies for coming across that way.
What would you consider to be "substantiated" from me? Considering that this is a mostly-anonymous discussion, and that you and I have never met, how can anything I write be 100% verified by you? You will either choose to believe me or your won't. Either way, our lives are unchanged.
I can tell you that I am a pilot for a major airline and that I have flown with numerous FFDOs. I can also tell you that because I have flown with FFDOs, I know what their procedures are. Under no circumstances will I tell you, or anyone else who doesn't "need to know" what those procedures are. Not even the flight attendents know all of the SOPs for the FFDOs, nor should they as the SOPs don't affect the FAs. Nor will I talk about airline-general security precautions even though all that information is probably available in the public domain. I'm not trying to be Secret Squirrel or Maxwell Smart, but I won't discuss sensitive security information on a public forum even if the information is already available to the public. Part of my employment contract with my company stipulates that I am not allowed to discuss that info, and I will abide by the agreement. Nothing personal to you, DJJ, or anyone else.
My "false" statement concerned the discussion of FFDOs
loading and unloading their gun in the cockpit. That does not happen. Period. That is all I will say on that topic.
I'm pretty sure I know what happened on the USAirways flight, but until the Federal Air Marshal Service, who is in charge of the FFDOs, releases that information to the public, I won't discuss it either.
edited to add:
Just for the record, it wasn't me.
I don't work for USAirways, nor do I know any of their pilots.