He was an active duty Navy Seal until he was a 45 year old Captain and broke his back and pelvis in parachute jump in 2001.
He graduated from Seal class 95 in 1978. That’s over 20 years of active duty and he wasn’t washed out.
You’re comparison with McCain is spurious at best.
That’s cool, I can get behind that. What’s baffling to me: I can’t square that up with the same guy who is now actually advocating abuse of a government position and misuse of classified information. Sometimes these guys have a brilliant career, are doing all the right things, and then something just happens to them. I don’t get it.
It’s like Chuck Hagel. In the early-80s to mid-90s, he was a co-founder, president, and CEO of a company that made him a multi-millionaire. Everything points to him having a lot on the ball, not just another idiot rich kid that was thrown a figurehead position in one of dad’s companies. He came a LONG way from the kid born in North Platte, Nebraska and worked at the local radio station. He wasn’t born into wealth and privilege like a little Al Gore, he wasn’t 5th generation Harvard like most people that attain high govt. office.
But then I see him at his confirmation hearing for SecDef looking disheveled and not sure where he’s even at. Before the hearing even started, I asked my wife, “Did this guy show up drunk?” And his stammering and hem-hawing through the questions didn’t help. Apperently congress would’ve confirmed Daffy Duck that day for that post. He never got any better. In every public appearance, he just looked and acted like he wasn’t all there. What kind of idiot gets publicly blamed for all the nation’s foreign policy problems, get publicly fired for it, then agrees to stay in the job for another 6 months until a replacement is found? I would’ve left skid marks getting out of there as soon as it left the boss’s pie-hole that I was fired. It’s baffling (at least to me).