How did McCain get names like "Songbird" "Ace McCain" and "Wet Start"?

Question

How did McCain get names like "Songbird" "Ace McCain" and "Wet Start"?

Answer 1

hold on vernon, McCain was NOT A MARINE

i dont know the answer to your question

Answer 2

probably nick names given by fellow marines. You will never know the real source or meaning, and they are given by friendly comrades.Besides, what does some handle mean today?You and I both had nick names in the past. I didn't keep mine long, twisted some noses.

Answer 3

Songbird for providing information and signing war criminal confessions under the duress of North Vietnamese torturers.

Ace for killing 5 planes. The qualification for ace is five enemy kills. He did lose five planes (all his own) but one was definitely due to an enemy's ground-fired missile so that kill didn't belong to McCain; so, even as a joke, the "ace" nickname doesn't quite work.

Wet Start for an incident on the aircraft carrier U.S.S Forrestal. A catastrophic fire killed over 130 sailors and injured another 160. The official records say the fire was started when a missile misfired and hit a plane's fuel tank. Some people have claimed that McCain pulled a showoff stunt, pooling fuel in his engine to cause an impressive fireball upon launch and that this wet start ignited the next plane behind him.

I doubt the wet start claim. But I sure would like to see if McCain's Naval pilot aptitude scores were better than Bush's 25% in the TANG.

I'll bet my seventh house Admiral's Boy McCain didn't score better than 60%!  

Answer 4

Probably attacks from Obama supporters.  They know they can't compete on anything of substance, so they just make attacks.