On August 27, 2018 at 5:27 pm,
When you start a jet engine on a fighter or attack aircraft, you feed air to get the blades turning up to a certain RPM, then you hit the igniters to generate a spark, then you add fuel and the engine starts up.
If you don’t hit the igniters first but put fuel to it and then hit the igniters you have this really cool burst of flame out the back.
We all did it to a certain extent when we thought we could get away with it.
But it’s a really bad idea on the crowded deck of a carrier with a bunch of planes around loaded with bombs and rockets.
McCain did a hot start and the flame ignited a five inch Zuni rocket on the plane right behind him.
The Zuni fired and hit another aircraft starting a fire.
Dozens were killed and at one point they feared the carrier would be lost.
Daddy had darling Johnny pulled off the carrier at the break of dawn the next day so he wouldn’t be lynched and then his actions were covered up.
I never knew a Naval Aviator who respected McCain for either his actions on the carrier or later as a traitor to his uniform as a POW.
Daddy was the guy who covered up for the attack on the Liberty in 1967 so he wasn’t anything to write home about either.
We left POWs behind in Vietnam. Nixon promised the North Vietnamese funds to rebuild their country but Congress refused to allow the money. So several hundred POWs that we knew about died in captivity.
McCain was the sole voice in killing the attempt to account for our POWs and MIAs.
As a potential POW myself, I will never forget or forgive the rat bastard traitor.
Robert Moriarty
