McCain’s father drank himself to death but was a good admiral.
His grandfather compared poorly to his rival Marc Mitscher in naval aviation and had actually been relieved of duty when the Japanese surrendered.
He dropped dead of a heart attack a few days after the Japanese surrender.
I was told a story about a disaster aboard the ship his father was commanding when McCain was a pilot and mistakenly released a missle while the jet was top side killing a service man or some. It was covered up, anyone know anything about this?