What a loser.
My husband was in the Air Force forerunner of Special Ops, based in Tahkli, Thailand where our F-111's were based.
He headed a 13-man Strike Team, guarding the airfield, "thinning" the communists who infiltrated the surrounding villages and base perimeter, wanting to down our planes with shoulder-fired weapons; and was choppered into the Hot Spots in Vietnam - a trick they used to beef up the forces without having to say how many participated in Nam.
(Basket TDY - no written trail)
He fought in the Tet Offensive and at Da Nang, etc., and one time was dropped with his team in NORTH Vietnam to where one of the F-111's had gone down.
Was left there for 3 days to see if anyone survived, and if it had self-destructed, as programmed.
What I want to say is they so loathed McNamara that the F-111 pilots devised a cute board at the base of the steps to climb into the cockpits.
On this large board was the Edsel design, over which was printed PANIC BUTTON - to hit BEFORE they went up to fly the often-failing aircraft...and refused to remove it when the brass objected.