It was one of the weirdest stories in years. The U.S. military lost a state-of-theart F-35 fighter jet, last seen flying pilotless over North Charleston, S. C., and was asking the public for help in finding the $80 million plane. As South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace said: 'How in the heck do you lose an F-35?'
The military has not been particularly transparent about what happened. We know t…