Because they know what happened: "At about 10:51 (local time) on 29 July, an electrical power surge in Phantom No. 110 occurred during the switch from external to internal power. The electrical surge caused one of the four 5-inch Mk-32 Zuni unguided rockets in a pod on external
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Replying to @gcochran99 @SeanMJoyce1 and
external stores station 2 (port inboard station) to fire.[6] The rocket was later determined to be missing the rocket safety pin, allowing the rocket to launch."
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Replying to @gcochran99 @SeanMJoyce1 and
McCain graduated in the bottom 1% of his class. He crashed planes. Captured, he made propaganda broadcasts. In the Senate, he supported obviously stupid policies. Nobody's perfect.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @SeanMJoyce1 and
Right... those are actual things. Causing 132 deaths on his ship (which is a constant talking point of many Trump supporters) is fake. But people are easily manipulated and gullible. They see it in a facebook post, they regurgitate it, now people are saying it everywhere as fact.
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Replying to @Kyle12345612341 @SeanMJoyce1 and
On the other hand, I know of an example or two in which the official report is a lie. Military commissions are usually pretty competent, but they will produce a cooked result if ordered to do so.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @SeanMJoyce1 and
Right, there are examples where they have lied. But there is absolutely no reason to believe this is one of those instances. The only 'evidence' to support it is a random person saying it. Problem is that random person's slander got spread, now it bears weight in people's minds.
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Replying to @Kyle12345612341 @gcochran99 and
The fact that his father was the CINCPAC is a *huge* reason to believe this is one of those instances but obviously there's not going to be definitive proof. The rest of his track record of incompetence and narcissistic destruction is more "reason to believe".
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Kyle12345612341 and
A CINCPAC has a finite amount of influence: My judgment is that it probably would not extend to a shielding a screwup that ruined a fleet carrier and got a lot of people killed. Avoiding getting kicked out of Annapolis: more plausible.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @Kyle12345612341 and
You having been alive at the time I'll trust your judgement since you were and have some knowledge of the culture.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Kyle12345612341 and
I was around, but hardly steeped in the Navy culture of the time. But there's history.
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History is one thing but the way to judge something like this is to have a feel for how much corruption was in the system at the time - which is only really ever going to be hinted at. Someone could confess but McCain being in the Senate for the whole time could stop that, too.
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