The pilots know the laws 7 for 10 if you'd stood up and given them the WTF look they'd have bailed. That said red/orange and white out west here is generally search and rescue or 1 of our "medi-evac"guys but then if we're 30 minutes from town we're 30 mi from anything. Nobody will do jack if it was GIs unless you happen to have a simpathetic officer in the chain. About 25 years ago the USN crashed a brand new Top Gun F18 on a ranch 30 miles out of route and 1st denied they had flights out let alone in the area. The rancher tells them "must be Russians,should I arrest them or execute them ?" 35 min later there was a medevac on the ground ,officers and investigators followed and hour later and an hour after that trucks rolled in to load the crash up.

Get N-numbers ,logos,and or government numbers. As an example N694US belongs to a NorthAmerican AT6 race plane from Indiana,RedBull has a few aircraft that look like RedBull cans and VMF 124 under EP reflects an aircraft assigned to the USMC and attached to the USS Enterprise. (Probably).