Reminds me of the WWII pilot who said he saw George H W Bush as he exited his plane and that later, all his buddies thought for certain Bush would get court martialed:
https://whowhatwhy.org/2014/09/02/an-enduring-mystery-about-bush-41s-wwii-escape-from-death/
These elites need good bios as "war heroes" for future political gamesmanship.
Zuni 5 Inch Rocket(See the Flight Deck spot Drawing(with chronology) from F-4B Aircraft Number 110 fired and went across the Flight Deck Striking and Detonating A-4E Number 405...
knarf, thanks for your service. Ive a Forrestal class centurion, also served as a carrier safety officer, also a flight deck shooter.
I wasnt there... many have doubts (of course nothing personal).
My problem... why is the TRIAL BY FIRE training video about the Forrest Fire complete with great video.... except for the actual ZUNI shot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6NnfRT_OZA
Everyone go to 3:10 and watch until about 3:45.
At 3:22, the training tape narrator says, There it is...Zuni shot...
But the problem is that there is a 1/2 second staged carrier flight deck shot of a VX-9 orange painted China Lake weapons test F-4. The narrator acts like it is the original shot by emotionally saying there it is!
I had to watch it 20 times to figure out whats going on. Theres no airplane in front of the test fire. Its the only plane in the frame. Its 1/2 second of footage, and its staged and fake. No yellow shirts, brown shirts, nobody on deck.
At the same time, on the other side of the world, the USS Liberty incident was happening in Israel, and his dad had to cover for that.
Check out the film, it doest prove anything. Its just kind of crap that the TRIAL BY FIRE video has a fake element.
again, thanks for your service."
I have no idea what your point is from that copy&paste post.
If it is intended in any way to prove that McCain was in any way culpable for the fire on the Forrestal it fails.
Sontagged, the Zuni missle was not seen directly, it was seen in the reflection of the glass through which the camera that was recording the flight operations had to film, but the camera was pointed in a different direction, not aft where the conflagration started.