you know, you military personals are very weak in creating fake stores, a person with a common sense of a 5th standard student knows that the frequency used by ordinary mobile phones and military channels are very different. your mil-17 went to the border area to intercept military radio communication, so how the hell he heard the chatting b/w a wife of an officer with an officer?? do you think that the military personals use their official radio communications to chat with one another through military frequency??
"once we were challenged by our own fighter as we turned off navigational lights""
what kind of stupid story is this?? why would they turned off the light?? that is a signal intelligence chopper. they don't even had to fly like they said. they are flying within their airspace, they are not even crossing the border. indian army and airforce have one of the most advanced radas and air defense network in the western border, they don't shoot with an ack ack gun after seeing some helicopter with lights, there are radars to detect choppers, then there is sam system in place, only when the chopper is came too close to the army base, the ack ack gun is used. but this is 21 century, we have good alternatives to shot down the incoming choppers, turning on and off of the navigational lights really doesn't matter.
the story is actually coped from Mark Owen book named No Easy Day, in that book he says that "when the stealth chopper approach the bin laden compound, the pilots turned off all the lights in the helicopter, there was no moon light either, seals have to relay completely on their new kind of NVGs"
this is the problem when someone get a hands on signal intelligence aircraft for the fist time, they start consider themselves as Hollywood stars, and start imagine this kind of stores.