No my flight commander is a great dude and would have preferred to handle this in the flight, but when my scheduler said, "Hey thanks man for sending me that text yesterday. You saved me a ton of time and a$$ pain", my assistant flight cc, also a FAIP, overheard it and felt it was his duty to inform the DO. What's done is done. I'll refrain from letting you know what I think of this guy on a forum because in the end I did break an AFI and I was wrong, but this FAIP thought he had an A-10 in the bag and he's on his way to Barksdale to fly Buffs. No offense to Buff guys! Just don't drop the soap in the shower.

It's all good though. I had some higher ups/legal advice that said I should fight it and bring up how common cell phone use and taking pictures are in cockpits, but it was more important to me to not sell out my bro's, take my LOR, gritt my teeth, and hope that a Reserve/Guard unit will take that into account when I'm a free agent and looking to fly for the part of the Air Force I should have joined in the first place.