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Posted by Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names on May 30, 2008, 6:52 am
On May 30, 12:22=A0am, aspasia wrote:
> Sure helps to be the son of an Admiral.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2vhef8
>
> Navy pilot John Sidney McCain III should have never been allowed to
> graduate from the U.S. Navy flight school. =A0He was a below average
> student and a lousy pilot. Had his father and grandfather not been
> famous four star U.S. Navy admirals, McCain III would have never been
> allowed in the cockpit of a military aircraft.
>
> His father John S. "Junior" McCain was commander of U.S. forces in
> Europe later becoming commander of American forces in Vietnam while
> McCain III was being held prisoner of war. McCain III's grandfather
> John S. McCain, Sr. commanded naval aviation at the Battle of Okinawa
> in 1945.
>
> During his relative short stunt on flight status, McCain III lost five
> U.S. Navy aircraft, four in accidents and one in combat.
>
> Robert Timberg, author of The Nightingale's Song, a book about
> Annapolis graduates and their tours in Vietnam, wrote that McCain
> "learned to fly at Pensacola, though his performance was below par, at
> best good enough to get by. He liked flying, but didn't love it."
>
> 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 three 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 relight 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 fourth aircraft loss occurred July 29, 1967, soon after he
> was assigned to the USS Forrestal as an A-4 Skyhawk pilot. While
> seated in the cockpit of his aircraft waiting his turn for takeoff, an
> accidently fired rocket slammed into McCain's plane. He escaped from
> the burning aircraft, but the explosions that followed killed 134
> sailors, destroyed at least 20 aircraft, and threatened to sink the
> ship.
>
> 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 and a leg in the process and subsequently parachuted into Truc
> Bach Lake near Hanoi.
>
> After being drug from the lake, a mob gathered around McCain, spit on
> him, kicked him and stripped him of his clothing. He was bayoneted in
> his left foot and his shoulder crushed by a rifle butt. He was then
> transported to the Hoa Lo Prison, also known as the Hanoi Hilton.
>
> After being periodically slapped around for "three or four days" by
> his captors who wanted military information, McCain called for an
> officer on his fourth day of captivity. He told the officer, "O.K.,
> I'll give you military information if you will take me to the
> hospital." -U.S. News and World Report, May 14, 1973 article written
> by former POW John McCain.
>
> "Demands for military information were accompanied by threats to
> terminate my medical treatment if I [McCain] did not cooperate.
> Eventually, I gave them my ship's name and squadron number, and
> confirmed that my target had been the power plant." Page 193-194,
> Faith of My Fathers by John McCain.
>
> When the communist learned that McCain's father was Admiral John S.
> McCain, Jr., the soon-to-be commander of all U.S. Forces in the
> Pacific, he was rushed to Gai Lam military hospital (U.S. government
> documents), a medical facility normally unavailable for U.S. POWs.
>
> The communist Vietnamese figured, because POW McCain's father was of
> such high military rank, that he was of royalty or the governing
> circle. Thereafter the communist bragged that they had captured "the
> crown prince."
>
> 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.
> There were infantry guys -- grunts on the ground -- who had more than
> 7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and
> situations where I'm sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good
> to them by comparison. The question really is how many guys got that
> number of medals for not being shot down."
>
> For years, McCain has been an unchecked master at manipulating an
> overly friendly and biased news media. The former POW turned
> Congressman, turned U.S. Senator, has managed to gloss over his
> failures as a pilot and collaborations with the enemy by exaggerating
> his military service and lying about his feats of heroism.
>
> McCain has sprouted a halo and wings to become America's POW-hero
> presidential candidate.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2vhef8
>
> Lots of other interesting stuff on this Web site -- like how he
> divorced his faithful, crippled wife in favor of a young heiress.
>
> JOHN MCCAIN was directly responsible for =A0the
> DEATHS of
> FELLOW AMERICAN PILOTS in VIETNAM
> =A0to view interview =A0with Colonel Earl Hopper
> click here
>
> The War Secrets Senator John McCain Hides
> Former POW Fights Public Access to POW/MIA Files
> click here
>
> Why has McCain been Communist Vietnam's best friend in the US
> Congress?
> click here
>
> Was John McCain Brainwashed by his North Vietnamese Captors to Destroy
> this Nation?
> click here
>
> McCain Drops F-Bomb
> "RAISING MCCAIN"
> Is McCain emotionally unstable?
> click here
>
> Legendary Temper Could Undermine McCain
> click here
>
> Henry Kissinger Takes
> Heat on MIAs!
> click here
>
> McCain lost five U.S.
> Navy aircraft!
> click here
>
> Betrayal, deceit, corruption and John McCain
> click here
Facts:
Click here:
www.miafacts.org/mccain.htm
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