Someone needs to look up the service record of Robert Leckie.
This has all been exposed many years ago, but I’m all for it.
McCain is scum.
I will criticize McCain’s politics til the cows come home, but I’m not going here. The man served honorably and did five years in the Hanoi Hilton. And no, the grunts on the ground living their own kind of hell would not have traded places with him.
He is an incompetent bottom dwelling senator ( but I repeat myself) deserving only to be the pilot of a target drone.
War hero, my Obamahole.
You mean Kerry actually had more combat time than McCain? Whoda thunk.
McCain has never really earned anything. He is from a wealth pampered background and not fit to lead this nation.
A war hero doesnt finished 894th out of 899 and still get stationed at a Navy champagne unit and promoted ahead of all but two of his 898 other classmates.
A war hero doesnt crash three U.S. Navy jets out of sheer incompetence and ineptitude, including two during non-combat training sessions.
A war hero doesnt get written up on drunk-and-disorderly, fraternization, disobeying orders, and insubordination charges more than two dozen times in less than three years.
A war hero doesnt get promoted to squadron commander of the air field named after his own grandfather immediately after crashing his third airplane.
A war hero doesnt have all the military records that cover his time in Vietnam and all disciplinary actions against him censored and sealed as a matter of national security.
A war hero doesnt get 28 medals awarded all after-the-fact for bravery for no other reason than being shot down and captured and then go on a celebrity public relations tour because hes the son of two acclaimed Navy admirals.
A war hero doesnt repeatedly cheat on the wife whos back in the states waiting for him, and then cheat on her more when he returns to the states, and then divorce and abandon her.
A war hero doesnt systematically vote against every single pay and benefit increase for military and veterans throughout his entire political career, all the while claiming to be the soldiers Congressman, and then take credit for the passage of a G.I. benefits bill he that voted AGAINST.
A war hero McCain III lost jet number one in 1958 when he plunged into Corpus Christi Bay while practicing landings. He was knocked unconscious by the impact coming to as the plane settled to the bottom.
McCains second crash occurred while he was deployed in the Mediterranean. Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula, Timberg wrote, he took out some power lines [reminiscent of the 1998 incident in which a Marine Corps jet sliced through the cables of a gondola at an Italian ski resort, killing 20] which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.
McCains third crash three occurred when he was returning from flying a Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game. Timberg reported that McCain radioed, Ive got a flameout and went through standard relight procedures three times before ejecting at one thousand feet. McCain landed on a deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees.
McCains fifth loss happened during his 23rd mission over North Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1967, when McCains A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. McCain ejected from the plane breaking both arms and a leg in the process and subsequently parachuted into Truc Bach Lake near Hanoi.
For 23 combat missions (an estimated 20 hours over enemy territory), the U.S. Navy awarded McCain a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars, two Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service medals.
McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat, explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall of Saigon. Since McCain got 28 medals, Bell continues, that equals out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat.
There were infantry guys grunts on the ground who had more than 7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and situations where Im sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good to them by comparison. The question really is how many guys got that number of medals for not being shot down.
For years, McCain has been an unchecked master at manipulating an overly friendly and biased news media.
The former POW turned Congressman, turned U.S. Senator, has managed to gloss over his failures as a pilot by exaggerating his military service and lying about his feats of heroism.
McCain has sprouted a halo and wings to become Americas POW-hero presidential candidate.
This article was written by an active, unnamed Marine. It was published by Gale Toensing founder of the Corner Report.com and she sent it to me.
It is a true account of McCains real war record and evidence of his lack of fitness for the office of President.
Used to work with a guy that was in Marine aviation as ground crew. He told me that most of the crashes you hear about in the peacetime military are the result of the pilot managing to piss off the ground crew to the extent that they sabotage the aircraft. A favorite trick was to duct-tape a wrench inside the air intake. It would hold on during any revving up on the ground, but once airborne, the airflow would be enough to suck it through the engine. He told me several other stunts that were less damaging.
I have no way of knowing if any of that was true. I simply present it for your consideration.
But anybody that could wreck that many planes in peacetime as McCain did shouldn’t have been allowed to fly one in combat.
This topic wouldn’t even be on the radar if it weren’t for... drum roll please... Donald Trump.
He fully supports the replacement of traditional Americans with every possible third worlder. He is a traitor and I hope he burns in hell for all those that have died or suffered due to his treason.
The Marine is full of dog poop. I knew some darn good fliers who cheated on their wives and who drank too much.
I’ve flown under power lines - both in the back seat of an F-4 and in the right seat of an F-111. Heck, my Dad got in trouble for flying a P-51 down Main Street, below the rooftops.
“For 23 combat missions (an estimated 20 hours over enemy territory), the U.S. Navy awarded McCain ...”
Nope. He got them on the recommendation of his superiors for his time in prison and his behavior there.
“There were infantry guys grunts on the ground who had more than 7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and situations where Im sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good to them by comparison...”
McCain still can’t lift his arms. I met Vietnam POWs who were limping and could not get on flying status. Yes, I’ve known grunts with the same sort of problems. My SIL is on 90% disability after two tours in Marine infantry in Iraq. But that doesn’t mean the POWs were having a good time.
Blast it, there are a thousand things to blast McCain for since he came back. I donated to his primary opponent in 2010 and voted against him in the general election. I despise McCain - but is it so tough for people to be honest about what he DID do right?
“A war hero doesnt systematically vote against every single pay and benefit increase for military and veterans throughout his entire political career...”
That didn’t happen, either. If nothing else, McCain gets conservative every 6 years...
For having three Purple Hearts, why isn’t John F. Kerry called a war hero?
His record is no secret. It’s to the disgrace of the Navy if they cover for him. As a politician, he is a shambles at utmost best.
I voted for Sarah Palin so John McCain could keep Dear Leader out of the top office.
I came across this web page earlier today, when roaming around.
It’s an interesting read.
It has quite a bit of information. It seems to have been done without over the top bias one way or the other.
I would still term it not favorable to McCain in it’s presentation, just so folks know what bias they will find heading in.
http://www.pythiapress.com/wartales/McCain-Shootdown.htm