“Author and biographer Robert Timberg has detailed several of McCain’s sexual relationships with subordinates when serving as a Squadron Leader and an Executive Officer.”
I despise McCain. That said, it seems extremely unlikely that he would have had any female subordinates in that era.
The only time that McCain was a squadron leader to my knowlege, I was in that squadron as a airman apprentice in transit to my fleet squadron in early 1976. That would be the VA-174 Hellrazors in Cecil Field, FL.
I do not recall any females in that squadron, but I was so focused on what I was doing that I could have been mistaken.
My best friend who enlisted with me was with an A-4 training squadron on the West Coast, and he did have females in his squadron, so I suppose it is possible.