As I stated in a post a long time ago, McCain had the name "Songbird" for a reason. My company commander in boot camp was on the flight deck of the Forrestal when that shit went down. He had the burn scars to prove it. Long story short, he blamed a young lieutenant - you guessed it, John McCain, A4 Skyhawk pilot. You can read all the stories you want about what happened, but our company believed him because essentially he scared the shit out of us when we got back to the barracks after graduation. He told us that hot dog pilots would "wet start" their jets by flooding the intake with fuel, so that when they fired up, a big fireball would come out the back. Sort of a rite of passage, so to speak. When that missile dropped off the F4 and skipped across the flight deck, it hit McCain's plane, causing the massive explosion, and the rest is history. Had the A4's intake not been flooded, things may have been different, who knows, the rest is just speculation. By the way, he also told us that if he ever got word of any of us "little ducks" fucking around when we got to the fleet, he would personally come and tear us to pieces. I aged twenty years that day, and will never forget it.

Look, I'm not here to rewrite history. I never met McCain. I wasn't there, and who knows what really happened...but we heard an account of it first hand from someone who was there, and our CC, probably the toughest motherfucker I have ever met, choked up as he told us that there were many guys who did survive that would mutter McCain's name under their breath because they knew too. Add to that, the Songbird moniker came from when he was shot down. He flipped on his cellmates to save his own ass. That was known by many senior shipmates I ran into when I was in. My older brother, a door gunner on a Huey Hog in Vietnam, told me before he died last year from agent orange that even the guys in the Army knew about McCain, and they couldn't stand him. For some reason, this is personal. Our CC later ate his own service weapon when he lost his wife to cancer.

I would like to point out two things: 1) Remember when President Trump made those comments about McCain and people excoriated him for it? Well, I believe he knew about McCain too; and 2) I was in the US Navy Honor Guard. I have posted about how those ceremonies are conducted, and I've had to present three Flags to family members. That flag on Songbird's casket was wrinkled for a reason. McCain was a traitor. I'll go to my grave believing that, for what it's worth.

As I stated in a post a long time ago, McCain had the name "Songbird" for a reason. My company commander in boot camp was on the flight deck of the Forrestal when that shit went down. He had the burn scars to prove it. Long story short, he blamed a young lieutenant - you guessed it, John McCain, A4 Skyhawk pilot. You can read all the stories you want about what happened, but our company believed him because essentially he scared the shit out of us when we got back to the barracks after graduation. He told us that hot dog pilots would "wet start" their jets by flooding the intake with fuel, so that when they fired up, a big fireball would come out the back. Sort of a rite of passage, so to speak. When that missile dropped off the F4 and skipped across the flight deck, it hit McCain's plane, causing the massive explosion, and the rest is history. By the way, he also told us that if he ever got word of any of us "little ducks" fucking around when we got to the fleet, he would personally come and tear us to pieces. I aged twenty years that day, and will never forget it.

Look, I'm not here to rewrite history. I never met McCain. I wasn't there, and who knows what really happened...but we heard an account of it first hand from someone who was there, and our CC, probably the toughest motherfucker I have ever met, choked up as he told us that there were many guys who did survive that would mutter McCain's name under their breath because they knew too. Add to that, the Songbird moniker came from when he was shot down. He flipped on his cellmates to save his own ass. That was known by many senior shipmates I ran into when I was in. My older brother, a door gunner on a Huey Hog in Vietnam, told me before he died last year from agent orange that even the guys in the Army knew about McCain, and they couldn't stand him. For some reason, this is personal. Our CC later ate his own service weapon when he lost his wife to cancer.

I would like to point out two things: 1) Remember when President Trump made those comments about McCain and people excoriated him for it? Well, I believe he knew about McCain too; and 2) I was in the US Navy Honor Guard. I have posted about how those ceremonies are conducted, and I've had to present three Flags to family members. That flag on Songbird's casket was wrinkled for a reason. McCain was a traitor. I'll go to my grave believing that, for what it's worth.