I got a real good question today... Hey, what happened to the five guys who finished lower than McCain at the Naval Academy? My guess is that a few made it all the way to manager of McDonalds.
Oh, I assure you, the truth is far, far stranger...
Calling the Roll in order of Merit...
#894 : John McCain, Republican candidate for President of the United States
#895 : Rear Adm. Angus Campbell MacLaurin, who commanded the 44th Naval Artillery Squadron in the Spanish-American War, whose lifetime disdain for trousers made his men famous as the "Pantsless Forty-Fourth". Last seen inadvertently mooning the Spanish lines from the top of San Juan Hill.
#896 : Capt. Frankie Orlogskapen, drummed out of the service in 1960 because he couldn't stop giggling whenever someone said the word "frigate". Later became a famous ventriloquist's dummy (thereby putting his Navy training to good use).
#897 : Lt. Cmdr. Samuel Houston Ferriston, famous in Navy circles as "Friendly Fire Ferriston". The only Naval officer ever to have successfully scuttled warships from four different classes. Later successfully commanded the USS Ed Meese, the last rowboat to see active service in a military campaign (the Meese was assigned to row back and forth in Kuwait's harbor picking up trash left behind by the Iraqis. The Navy later forgot to take Ferriston and the Meese's crew home with them; seventeen years later, they are still there.)
#898 : Capt. Jethro LaFourche, who later became the chief adviser to the Ugandan Space Program. Pioneered the innovative training regimen of sealing astronauts up in metal barrels and rolling them down mountainsides (note: this really happened).
#899 : Became an intelligence attache. This is the White House military adviser who told Dick Cheney to say "We Will Be Welcomed As Liberators In Iraq". He shall remain nameless so as not to totally embarrass his family.