It is also abosolutely astounding that some people think that a person who was close to the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy and got his wings due to his father's connections(McCain) is considered a military genius.
Is finishing last in your class and defending your country now considered worse than avoiding service because of a cyst on your butt? Rush's father, Rush Limbaugh Jr., also had a pilonidal cyst, but that didn't keep him out of the service. Rush's father was a fighter pilot during World War II, flying a P-51 Mustang in the Pacific Theater of Operations.
Take that up with the Custer and Pickett fanatics on the Civil War posts. Class goats, both of them. Patton was near the bottom, too, and he turned out OK.