Martin Sullivan is a former chairman of the US President's Advisor Committee on Cultural Property. He resigned, in April 2003, in protest of the US failure to prevent looting of the National Museum of Iraq, following the Invasion of Iraq. Two other cultural advisors, Gary Vikan and Richard S Lanier, also resigned.
SYNOPSIS: LTCDR Martin J. Sullivan was a pilot assigned to assigned to Fighter Squadron 96 aboard the aircraft carrier USS ENTERPRISE.
Sullivan and Carlson were to conduct a pre-briefed simulated aerial combat maneuver with their flight leader.
Although it seems quite clear that Carlson and Sullivan are not among them, one can imagine them proudly taking one more flight for their comrades in distress.