One haircut no Romney menfolk ever had

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31. Done this before, and I'll gladly do it again. Your ignorance is such that one could cut it with a

knife. That is to say THICK.

"Pre-primed." What is that... priming it before you prime it? Is that all you know about the Oriskany Fire? For that matter, what do you know about jet engines? I'll tell you all you need to know, and take this for what it is... information from someone with almost 500 days of flight deck experience.

You're claiming (without really knowing what you're claiming obviously) that McCain intentionally caused his A-4 to spit fire when he started it. You're also claiming, (again unintentionally since you DON'T KNOW how flight deck operations go) that McCain's aircraft, while spitting fire, cooked a bomb hanging from the wing of the plane parked behind it that eventually exploded.

May I give you a clue? Since the advent of jet engines, no aircraft on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier has ever started its engine while its exhaust was pointed at another parked aircraft ESPECIALLY if that aircraft had live weapons hanging from its wings. That's just now how it goes.

McCain's aircraft was parked on the port side aft. It was TOW (I'm going to make you look this term up yourself). An AO, testing the bomb-rack on an F-4 Phantom parked on the starboard side aft caused a ZUNI rocket to shoot across the deck, hit the drop tank (an auxilliary tank meant to be dropped when it was empty) on McCain's plane and ignite it. McCain was simply sitting in his A/C waiting for his turn to taxi (and I'm not talking about a Yellow Cab) to the catapult.

When his plane ignited McCain kept his cool, and was able to climb over his canopy and exit his plane by jumping from it's radome (yeah maybe you should look that one up too) to the ground.

I know men who were there that day. Most of them knew men who died in the aftermath. Your stupid bullshit post denigrates those brave men who lost their lives fighting the fire, and those men who died below the flight deck when bombs on OTHER planes cooked off and exploded.

Post about things you know.

"I did my homework will you???" is fucking laughable. Fucking laughable and sad to the Nth degree.

I've got a few minutes... post and tell me ALL YOU KNOW about flight deck operations in the US Navy... I say a few minutes, because I think that's about all it will take for you to tell me ALL YOU KNOW.