Patrick Burns

Patrick Burns appears in 116.不服从的艺术：分享一些实战方法，还有力量 as the U.S. Navy figure who disclosed an internal investigation connected to Kara Hultgreen’s fatal F-14 accident. The episode describes him as supportive of gender integration and equality while still willing to risk his military career to surface a more complicated account of the accident.

The source uses Burns as a political truth-telling case where facts are uncomfortable partly because they are easy for hostile audiences to weaponize. His example extends the wiki’s whistleblower branch beyond corporate fraud into identity-protective avoidance and the cost of preserving a difficult public record.

Connections

• Kara Hultgreen - accident case tied to his disclosure in the source.
• Whistleblower Evidence Discipline - adjacent concept around preserving difficult evidence.
• Political Truth-Telling / 政治性说真话 and Rational Humility - truth and judgment concepts extended by the case.
• Principled Disobedience / 原则性不服从 - broader episode frame.