Dave LaCourse wrote in
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He's a genuine hero, Scott. Stop trying to make him out
to be anything else. You're better than that.

He's a hero, Dave, but we're talking about the judgement of a man who
wants to lead the free world.

Before Vietnam, he crashed an AD-6 into Corpus Christi Bay.
"Investigators determined that McCain was watching instruments in his
cockpit that indicated the position of his landing gear and had lost
track of his altitude and speed."

He ran his Skyraider into electrical wires in Spain. McCain himself said
this was because of "daredevil clowning".

He ejected from a T-2 in 1965 over Virginia, crashing the plane into the
woods. "The report found that McCain, then assigned to squadron VT-7 in
Meridian, Miss., had made several errors: He failed to switch the plane's
power system to battery backup, which "seriously jeopardized his survival
chances." His idea of landing on the drag strip was "viewed with concern
and is indicative of questionable emergency procedure.""

He crashed two planes and almost crashed a third before he ever saw
combat.

He probably wouldn't have still been flying by Vietnam if his father
weren't Mr. Big.

Perhaps this explains why less than 10 pages of his military record have
been released, when the full package is rumored to be hundreds of pages.

Cleland was a hero, too, Dave. Why was it OK to post mortem his PH, but
asking why we don't know about McCain's early aviation problems is
questioning his heroism?




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Scott
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