Does McCain Have Executive Experience?

It still stupifies me that the Left has the stupidity to make EXPERIENCE an issue! The gift that keeps giving.

Commanding one of the RAG squadrons (Replacement Air Group...old nick name) is a big deal. They usually have 4-5 times the number of aircraft that a regular squadron has. There are instructor pilots, pilots transitioning from one aircraft type to another, student pilots fresh from getting their wings, maintenance officers and chiefs, regular maintenance folks, enlisted maintenance instructors, enlisted maintenance trainees, and all of the administrative folks. These squadrons can have birds and personnel all over the place, on training flights, on carrier qualification dets, on det at a bombing range, at an airshow or two. With all of the trainees, there are more mistakes and possibly more accidents. It takes a really good officer to handle that command.

All true. Also, no one is assigned to any position in that command from top to bottom unless their fitness is A-1. The safety and proficiency standards of the entire attack community depends on the quality of this squadron.

VA-174 was in charge of training everybody associated with the A-7 Corsair II on the East Coast.

That's a lot of responsibility. Lots more than running get out the vote programs in black areas of South Chicago while doing dope. Oh, did I go there again?

Thanx for the promo.

I think Obama called it "blow". How with it can you get. That'll nail down the corner boy vote for his side.