[Billthedrill]

Oh, yeah. Everybody going through Damage Control school in the 70's got chapter and verse on the Forrestal. It was one of those cascades of events that you couldn't make worse if you tried.

McCain is lucky to be alive. The guy next to him made it to the flight deck and was killed when the first bomb cooked off. A Chief had the brass ones to try cooling it with a hand-held fire extinguisher and paid for it with his life. 134 guys lost that day.

[Michael.SF.]

Everybody going through Damage Control school in the 70's got chapter and verse on the Forrestal.

My son went through Damage Control school at Great lakes in '82, they still do.