Letters to the Editor
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Gone toe-to-toe with the Russians?
Before you start criticising McCain's experience you just better know that John McCain was, when a pilot, an early and ardent exponent of the "wet start" technique. This "wet start" method is like "choking" a car- the engine is flooded with fuel before ignition by the pilot (back when these controls were manual) so when ignition takes place, BOOM! This results in a huge tongue of flame being ejected from the jet's tail, and on an aircraft carrier, where the planes are at close quarters, gives the guy behind you a hell of a start. So he gets woke up, you get your jollies, and everybody has a great day. Unfortunately, on the USS Forrestal, it resulted in some unstable 1000lb. bombs "cooking off" on the plan behind. This made a hell of a fire. McCain was transferred to transfer his technique to other carriers, and since those 1000lb bombs weren't supposed to have been used, the thing was hushed.
So don't tell me McCain hasn't any or sufficient military experience. If this is even partly true, he seems to have experience in all the phases of military tactics which have redounded to the glory of recent Presidents. Okay, he hasn't actually gone AWOL, but what do you want? Not every man is George Bush, not by a long shot, no sir!