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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
I would reply and remind her how her dad was responsible for many, many deaths aboard the USS Forestall due to his ineptness.

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Originally posted by Cousin Vinnie:
Screw Cindy McCain.....John was a turn coat and FU*K him. As far as Cindy, I'm not into FAT CHICKS! Especially liberal, progressive RINO chicks.

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Originally posted by Jimbo54:

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
I would reply and remind her how her dad was responsible for many, many deaths aboard the USS Forestall due to his ineptness.

Actually I believe that the Navy ruled the incident to be caused by an electrical malfunction and not McCain. It doesn't make him any less of an asshole though.

Jim

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Originally posted by Paten:

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
I would reply and remind her how her dad was responsible for many, many deaths aboard the USS Forestall due to his ineptness.

McCain didn't start the fire on the Forestall. There's plenty of reasons not to like him without making up stories.

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...The fire started at 10:51 a.m. Saturday, July 29, 1967, as 30-year-old Lt. Cmdr. John McCain sat on the port side of the Forrestal in his A-4 Skyhawk going through preflight checks. To his right was Lt. Cmdr. Fred White, also in an A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft. A Zuni rocket on another airplane accidentally fired and flew across the flight deck, passing through White’s auxiliary fuel tank and falling into the ocean. Fuel spilled onto the deck from White’s craft and ignited.

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Some of those who were on the Forrestal and other persons familiar with the ordnance told me that because the rocket did not hit McCain’s craft, only actions by the pilot could have caused any bomb to fall from McCain’s Skyhawk. These sources — who spoke under the condition that they not be publicly identified — agree with each other that, if any bomb fell from the McCain airplane, it was because of actions that he took either in error or panic upon seeing the fire on the deck or in his hasty exit from the plane. Two switches in the cockpit of a Skyhawk need to be thrown to drop such a bomb, according to the sources.

Whatever the circumstances of the fire’s origins, McCain did not stay on deck to help fight the blaze as the men around him did. With the firefighting crew virtually wiped out, men untrained in fighting fires had to pick up the fire hoses, rescue the wounded or frantically throw bombs and even planes over the ship’s side to prevent further tragedy. McCain left them behind and went down to the hangar-bay level, where he briefly helped crew members heave some bombs overboard. After that, he went to the pilot’s ready room and watched the fire on a television monitor hooked to a camera trained on the deck.