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Originally Posted by Milkman  McCain's rank in the Navy was fairly low. (No direspect, but he wasn't in a leadership position.) |
Fairly low rank? Not in a leadership position?
About three years after McCain returned from Vietnam he became the commanding officer of the Navy's largest training squadron (VA-174) in Florida, and he retired from the Navy with the rank of Captain.
Sure he never obtained the rank of Admiral but that hardly means he had a fairly low rank (Captain O-6 ain't a fairly low rank IMHO). And sure he was not a front line commander during war time, but I fail to see how one could classify a person that was the CO of the Navy's largest training squadron as not in a leadership position.
Washington Times - Politics, Breaking News, US and World News - "McCain camp: 'Shocked and disappointed'" by Dinan Quote:
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...talk about McCain's postwar executive experience as commander of the Navy's largest aviation squadron, VA-174, a training squadron based at Cecil Field in Florida.
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John McCain’s service record Quote:
After months of treatment and therapy, McCain regained his flight status by late 1974 and became commanding officer of a training squadron stationed in Florida by 1976.
McCain retired from Navy on April 1, 1981 as a captain.
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