I heard that he got bugger all in the settlement. Might have covered his legal costs but that's about it. Reading through the court documents, if I was the applicants counsel I'm not sure I'd want to run this one. Looks like they advised him to take what was on offer, shut up and move on. In my humble view that was sound advice.
Interesting that the applicant didn't want the circumstances leading to the F-18 accident discussed in the case. I wonder why.......?
But yes, not sure we will see too many US ex-military pilots being recruited going forward.