What is a commissioned officers duty's has a POW

Question

If I remember right it's to take command,and try to get out of POW camp. Commander McCain didn't try to do this.That shows poor leadership on his part and poor command has a commisioned Officer

Answer 1

Yea and how many times have you even come close to ever being caught by the enemy. You were probaly a fobbit.

Shut your mouth until you have atleast spent a real day in a soldiers shoes a** hole..

Answer 2

You have no idea what you are talking about. Being a POW during the Vietnam war was not like Hogan's Heros or Rambo Part 2. Sen Mccain was kept in solitary confinement or two or three to a cell.

You need to read his book "Faith of My Fathers".The book traces the story of McCain's life growing up, during his time in the United States Naval Academy, and his military service as a naval aviator before and during the Vietnam War. His story is interwoven with those of his father John S. "Jack" McCain, Jr. and his grandfather John S. "Slew" McCain, Sr., both four-star admirals. McCain writes forthrightly of his rebellious and misspent youth, and his conflicts about following in his forefathers' steps.

The centerpiece of Faith of My Fathers is a lengthy account of McCain's five and half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnamese camps, of the torturing and suffering he and his fellow prisoners endured, and the various kinds of faith that enabled him to carry on through the ordeal. The book concludes with the release from captivity of him and the other POWs in 1973.

The following passage explains the book's title:

Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles. No misfortune, no injury, no humiliation can destroy it. This is the faith that my commanders affirmed, that my brothers-in-arms encouraged my allegiance to… It was my father and grandfather's faith. A filthy, broken man, all I had left of my dignity was the faith of my fathers. It was enough".

Answer 3

Responsibility of any POW can be found in the Military's Code of Conduct

Article III: If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy.

Article IV: If I become a prisoner of war, I will keep faith with my fellow prisoners. I will give no information or take part in any action which might be harmful to my comrades. If I am senior, I will take command. If not, I will obey the lawful orders of those appointed over me, and will back them up in every way.

At first glance it would appear that it is every POWs responsibility to try an escape and in fact the Geneva conventions recognized this and made it illegal for captors to execute POWs for attempting to escape. However, we would all agree that the VietCong were not following Geneva Convention Law as respect to the treatment of their POWs therefore it would be the highest ranking officers responsibility to protect his soldiers and airmen to the best of his ability. This may mean not attempting to escape. If McCain were to escape and his comrades were killed because of his escape, which is likely, then he would be responsible for their deaths.

On a personal note: I believe that the horrors that McCain and other POWs suffered are, to many of us, completely unimaginable. McCain has permenant physical effects (he was hung by his arms dislocating his shoulders many times which is why he walks with his arms out). We will never fully understand what he or other POWs went through and therefore it is never our place to judge the decisions they made under incredible amounts of stress.

POW/MIA You Are Not Forgotten

Answer 4

what a complete load of rubbish,no,you dont remember right at all,at least he could spell

Answer 5

Maverick is right on the money. I teach the Code of Conduct almost every today to deploying Soldiers, Airmen and Sailors here at FT. Riley.

Also, SEN. McCain was not the senior officer in capitvity clown. Brigadier General (ret) Robbie Risner of the Air Force was the senior ranking POW there at the time and was in charge of any escape attempt which McCain was in no shape to make.

Know your facts or better yet, log off..

Answer 6

Are you aware that you demonstrated that you are a fake by the question you asked?

Every member of the US military is trained in the Code Of Conduct - and if you were a real veteran you would already know how the Code Of Conduct applied to McCain in his situation.

McCain followed the Code of Conduct.

Answer 7

"Vet with our country" - if you really are a Vet, I thank you for your service and as one Vet to another, you, sir, have no damned clue about what you are talking about.

John McCain is a genuine war hero. He was brutally beaten while he was a POW and yet he did not cave into coersion by the enemy.

Both John McCain's father and grandfather were in thier time, Admiralty in the US Navy (his grandfather having played a pretty prominent role in the Pacific during WWII). In fact, John McCain's father at the time was Commander-In-Chief of U.S. Pacific Command. (To the North Viet-namese, this made John McCain somewhat of like royalty to them, the "crown prince" they called him and that made him all the better to beat the c**p out of and torture.)

When the North Viet-namese found this out they also offered to release John McCain (believing that it would help them diplomatically but also they would be able to use it for their own propaganda purposes). John McCain refused to leave his fellow POWs. Having survived, 5-years or so in that Hanoi h**l hole would break anyone. He refused to leave his 'shipmates' behind.

That is leadership!