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This stuff reminds me of a conspiracy theorist who posted here back in about 1998- about the time the Kursk sank. He could come up with some whoppers and what he couldn't another poster named after a faucet part could LOL. The second poster long gone from FR posted a Math professors article on (9/11 emergency communications at the WTC. 9/11 brought out the worst in conspiracy theories especially from those who do not understand steel only has to be heated to loose strength and it doesn't have to be molten or even red hot to change it's strength.

The first one who went on about KURSK and other Navy incidents real and imagined actually got Nuked from the site all post removed. I used to go into the old Forestall website an unofficial one ran by a former crew-member where shipmates there chewed the fat and reunited with shipmates.You'd think if McCain had started the fire as some insist they would have said so. They didn't.

People I know who know better including a shipmate and guy I was fire dept with even hates McCain so much he lets it blind him to logic and truth. When I debunked the launch he went to how McCain responded to the fire. Then after that his POW behavior. I pointed out to him that out former C.O. who was in Hilton at the same time endorsed him for POTUS he still kept going on. The C.O. became Rear Admiral before retiring. My buddy only served a couple months under that C.O. If McCain had sold out fellow POW's there is no way in hell my former C.O. would have endorsed him. Would he have known? Yeah he was same rank as McCain and both shot down within several months timeframe. Stockdale didn't go after McCain which also leads me to believe internet folk lore has made McCain the focus of a tragedy and in doing so takes away from some very heroic actions during that accident and two more many either have forgotten or never even read about.

Three carriers had major from Flight deck burning down below hanger deck fires within months of each other. One of course was Forestall. Another one was caused by a panicked sailor tossing a lit flare back into a flare locker onboard the USS Oransky leaving 44 dead 156 injured. The third and last one involved a Zuni rocket detonation in 1969 onboard the USS Enterprise CVN 65. Nobody mentions them isn't that amazing? 29 Died on Enterprise and 314 injured.

My guess and bet is when McCain was safely below deck he was taken to a private undisclosed room and debriefed as well as anyone else who may have had knowledge of the cause if they survived. N.I.S. investigates all fires from crashes down to the you can just about bet it's gonna happen swab fires after field day. The sooner the debriefing occurs the more accurate the information is.