John McCain was called ‘maverick’ after the first Top Gun movie came out.
The lefties started calling him that whenever he ‘reached across the aisle’ and voted with them, selling out his voters.
As a simpleton who would have gotten nowhere without his father being an Admiral, he loved it.
It’s kind of like how the media called Creepy Porn Lawyer Avenetti ‘Presidential’... as in “Ooooh you’re so presidential! Tell us more about that evil Trump”
” his father being an Admiral”
Father and Grandfather were both Admirals, both highly accomplished and decorated Admirals, just to set the record straight.
That is how he got into The Naval Academy
That is how he stayed in The Naval Academy
That is he managed to remain in the Navy after the accident on the USS Forrestal.
The rest of his Naval Career, I have no comment on.