Re: McAin't: maverick flyboy of 1967

$100 fill-up wrote:
> McCain's most horrendous loss occurred in 1967 on the USS Forrestal.
Well, 
> not horrendous for him. The starter motor switch on the A4E Skyhawk
allowed 
> fuel to pool in the engine. When the aircraft was wet-started, an
impressive 
> flame would shoot from the tail. It was one of the ways young hot-shots
got 
> their jollies. Investigators and survivors took the position that McCain

> deliberately wet-started to harass the F4 pilot directly behind him. The
cook 
> off launched an M34 Zuni rocket that tore through the Skyhawk's fuel
tank, 
> released a thousand pound bomb, and ignited a fire that killed the pilot
plus 
> 167 men. Before the tally of dead and dying was complete, the son and 
> grandson of admirals had been transferred to the USS Oriskany. :^)

He should have been booted out of the USN. If this is true and I suspect 
it is, he is unfit to be president.