I have worked with a number of Navy aviators in the past and none of hem had a good thing to say about McCain. The amateur psychological assessment from the Navy aviator “hall file” on McCain ‘desperately wanted to match or out do his father and grandfather but too spoiled and entitled to actually do it’.
Before someone asks, they all were way too young to have ever served with McCain or be a contemporary. So they were repeating what they had heard - “hall file”.
Remember he was thoroughly disliked by his Senate colleagues!