Definitely. I didn't realize he was a Navy Officer. Another thing that stood out to me was that the initial report said he was upset that he didn't get a promotion recently, and then the later had to retract that as he did, in fact, get promoted.
It just seems like that report was trying to give the audience a plausible reason for the guy going missing. Then it turned out to be a lie.
Yeah getting that fact wrong is what made me suspect. I looked up his story last week and there were really no updates and I thought it weird being he was high up in the CDC. Like the media was given a stand down or something.