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To: i-node who wrote (410606)	8/27/2008 4:06:40 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577892

>I can't find any credible evidence that McCain lost 5 planes.< "McCain's pre-combat duty began when he was commissioned an ensign, and started two and a half years of training as a naval aviator at Pensacola.[14] There he also earned a reputation as a partying man.[7] Graduating from flight school in 1960, he became a naval pilot of ground-attack aircraft. McCain was then stationed in A-1 Skyraider squadrons,[15] on the aircraft carriers USS Intrepid and USS Enterprise,[16] in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas.[17] The planes he was flying crashed twice and once collided with power lines, but he received no major injuries.[17]" On July 3, 1965, McCain married Carol Shepp, a model originally from Philadelphia.[12] McCain adopted her two young children Douglas and Andrew.[16][18] He and Carol then had a daughter named Sidney.[19][20] McCain requested a combat assignment,[21] and was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal flying A-4 Skyhawks.[22] His combat duty began when he was 30 years old, in summer 1967, when Forrestal was assigned to a bombing campaign during the Vietnam War.[12][23] McCain and his fellow pilots became frustrated by micromanagement from Washington, and he would later write that "In all candor, we thought our civilian commanders were complete idiots who didn't have the least notion of what it took to win the war."[24][23] By then a lieutenant commander, McCain was almost killed on July 29, 1967, when he was near the center of the Forrestal fire. He escaped from his burning jet and was trying to help another pilot escape when a bomb exploded;[25] McCain was struck in the legs and chest by fragments.[26] The ensuing fire killed 134 sailors and took 24 hours to control.[27][28] With the Forrestal out of commission, McCain volunteered for assignment with the USS Oriskany.[29]" John McCain's capture and imprisonment began on October 26, 1967. He was flying his 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam, when his A-4E Skyhawk was shot down by a missile over Hanoi.[30][31] McCain fractured both arms and a leg, and then nearly drowned, when he parachuted into Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi.[30] After he regained consciousness, a crowd attacked him, crushed his shoulder with a rifle butt, and bayoneted him.[30] Lieutenant Commander McCain was then transported to Hanoi's main Hoa Lo Prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton".[31] en.wikipedia.org