AND NOW...............THE REST OF THE STORY ABOUT "THE MAVERICK" MCCAIN
For most of us who have served in the military, we have seen favorites get away with things. However; for the most part, thanks to the Chain of Command usually , I found in all my years, we would end up getting a fair deal for most of us hotheads and outspoken buggers. We were many and I certainly had too many times, standing at attention in front of the Commander for little things, like locking an obnoxious officer in her barracks during training , we put a lock outside her door. WWII barracks in Kansas, used for Apache firing practice before they put the first of us at the beginning of Shield/Storm there. But that is another story.
Or the time me and the Colonel who got me into most messes, stole the Marine's picnic table and chained it to our tree outside the old, dilapidated barracks. That came close to a fiasco. Other things people do when out on maneuvers on off time, the expression "Idle hands are the Devil's plaything" apply here. Small potatoes and none of us would ever have thought of doing the things McCain did. None of us. We were all patriots and we all took our training seriously, playtime was mischief and blow steam off time.
Now many won't like this article but if they took the time to look into McCain they would find it is very truthful and once again a filthy man worked his dirt all his life.
Michael Kelley, former Navy Airborne Electronic Warfare Officer
The “Maverick”!!
Another perspective......
Maybe this is why Trump says what he does about McCain. Besides being a life long elected Republican, when it came down to repeal Obamacare, he voted with the Dems.
John McCain
Michael Kelley I am a former Navy Airborne Electronic Warfare Officer and a 100% Disabled Vietnam Vet.
A real “war hero” doesn’t finish 894th out of 899 and still get stationed at a Navy champagne unit and promoted ahead of all but two of his 898 other classmates.
A real “war hero” doesn’t crash three U.S. Navy jets out of sheer incompetence and ineptitude, including two during non-combat training sessions .
A real “war hero” doesn’t get written up on drunk-and-disorderly, fraternization, disobeying orders, and insubordination charges more than two dozen times in less than three years. Any other Naval Aviator would have been out of the service and on the street in short order.
A real "war hero" doesn't make repeated pro-North Vietnam propaganda broadcasts and come out of captivity weighing just a few pounds less than when he went in while other POWs came out having lost 30%-40% of their pre-captivity bodyweight.
A real “war hero” doesn’t get promoted to squadron commander of the air field named after his own grandfather immediately after crashing his third airplane. A “war hero” doesn’t have all the military records that cover his time in Vietnam and all disciplinary actions against him censored and sealed “as a matt e r of national security.”
A real “war hero” doesn’t get 28 medals awarded all after-the-fact “for bravery” for no other reason than being shot down and captured and then go on a celebrity public relations tour because he’s the son of two acclaimed Navy admirals.
A real “war hero” doesn’t repeatedly cheat on the wife who’s back in the states waiting for him, and then cheat on her more when he returns to the states, and then divorce and abandon her.
A real “war hero” doesn’t systematically vote against every single pay and benefit increase for military and veterans throughout his entire political career, all the while claiming to be “the soldier’s Congressman,” and then take credit for the passage of a G.I. benefits bill he that voted AGAINST.
A real “war hero” - McCain III lost jet number one in 1958 when he plunged into Corpus Christi Bay while practicing landings. He was knocked unconscious by the impact coming to as the plane settled to the bottom. McCain’s second crash occurred while he was deployed in the Mediterranean. “Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula,” Timberg wrote, “he took out some power lines [reminiscent of the 1998 incident in which a Marine Corps jet sliced through the cables of a gondola at an Italian ski resort, killing 20] which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.”
McCain’s third crash (3) occurred when he was returning from flying a Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game. Timberg reported that McCain radioed, “I’ve got a flameout” and went through standard re f ight procedures three times before ejecting at one thousand feet. McCain landed on a deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees.
McCain’s fifth loss happened during his 23rd mission over North Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1967, when McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. McCain ejected from the plane breaking both arms an d a leg in the process and subsequently parachuted into Truc Bach Lake near Hanoi.
For 23 combat missions (an estimated 20 hours over enemy territory), the U.S. Navy awarded McCain a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars, two Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service medals.
“McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat,” explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs — the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall of Saigon. “Since McCain got 28 medals,” Bell continues, “that equals out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat.
I spent ten years flying in the Navy and ended up with nine medals/ribbons including my Vietnam service, which was about normal for officers who didn't have their Admiral father writing commendations for them.
McCain also proved his "character" when he returned from Vietnam to a wife who had been in a horrific auto accident and left disfigured and confined to a wheelchair while waiting faithfully for him for six years. Very shortly after he returned he divorced her and married the "trophy wife" who would enhance his political aspirations.
We called McCain "Songbird" and you will have a hard time finding any Vietnam era Naval Aviator who did not loathe him.
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