I very much dislike second guessing anyone (there for the grace of god go I and all of that stuff... But whilst we are in the situation of calling heavily on the speculation brothers.... to add to what AOTW has said).
"ATC, MDX, how long is the anticipated hold?"
"MDX, ATC, Approximately 2 minutes.."
"Copied, Happy with that, MDX"
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For all of those barking about the present day situation..
Considering there are almost 100 military aircraft on the base, operating for the majority of the time under IFR, a wide variety of commercial operations, the vast majority of which are IFR, why does it come as a surprise that in a VFR light aircraft that you are the lowest on the priority pile?