MIA Question: I defy you to provide answer.?

Possible CIA operative casualty in a "Black Ops" mission. If that is the case, he was in a place he should not have been and if killed or captured the US Govt will deny any and all connection or knowledge of that person forever. Records will disappear and Richard Red will vanish.

Photographers don't serve in "highly sensitive gov't positions" whatever the hell that is, and Navy Ensigns certainly don't serve as photographers.

If he has no service record, then he wasn't an Ensign. People aren't classified, missions are. If he was some sort of intelligence operative HIGHLY unlikely as an Ensign unless he was aircrew working surveillance, then he would've been killed/lost in a "training accident"; which was the standard way to admit losses during the Cold War. I point you to RB47, RB45, and RF84 losses over the USSR and N Korea for examples.

But your question has conspiracy theory written all over it, so any use of Occam's Razor (I defy YOU to look that up), and 24 years of military experience, many of those spent in very close-hold programs won't convince you.

6 feet underground.

I don't really respond well to challenges, do the work yourself if you are so interested.