<p>“One of the tenets that midshipmen are taught is that when officers screw up people, can and do, get killed.” GreatAmerican</p>
<p>Reminds me of the time bush daddy naval officer, George H.W. Bush, was the sole survivor after his plane crashed and his entire crew perished in the South Pacific during WWII.</p>
<p>“Chester Mierzejewski, an old war buddy of Bush, who said he was angered by the ‘false assertions’ made by candidate Bush when describing the incident, gave a different account. After 44 years of silence, Mierzejewski, who also was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, told the NY Post that Bush had abandoned his crew to death when there was another choice. He said he was approximately 100 feet in front of Bush’s plane as the turret gunner for Squadron Commander Douglas Melvin’s plane, ‘so close he could see in the cockpit’ of Bush’s bomber. Mierzejewski’s close wartime buddy was one of the two crew members in Bush’s plane… He saw ‘a puff of smoke’ come from Bush’s plane which quickly disappeared and was certain only one man parachuted from the plane and that it was Bush, the pilot. Mierzejewski said the Avenger torpedo bomber was engineered so that it could successfully crash land on water and that Bush doomed his own crew by bailing out and leaving the bomber out of control.”</p>