newfag ;-)

(waiting for that Twinkie House punch to the face)

The funny thing is, along with the rampant verbal abuse, and the use of the suffix "fag" to attack anything and everything, the polymorphous perversity amazes me there, specifically the "balls aren't touching, so it's not gay" and "yes, I know it's a trap, I would still hit it."

It's a hoot.

... http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjoh...

It is worth pointing out that of the five, one was shot down and resulted in his capture by enemy soldiers, and another one was, reportedly, hit by "an accidentally fired rocket":

McCain's fourth aircraft loss occurred July 29, 1967, soon after he was assigned to the USS Forrestal as an A-4 Skyhawk pilot. While seated in the cockpit of his aircraft waiting his turn for takeoff, an accidently fired rocket slammed into McCain's plane. He escaped from the burning aircraft, but the explosions that followed killed 134 sailors, destroyed at least 20 aircraft, and threatened to sink the ship.

So by my count, McCain wrecked three jets.  Two were wrecked for him.

Here's my favorite part:

"McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat," explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs -- the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall of Saigon. "Since McCain got 28 medals," Bell continues, "that equals out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat. There were infantry guys -- grunts on the ground -- who had more than 7,000 hours in combat ... "