Fact Check- Was John McCain on navy ships with nuclear power plants?

[EmilyAnne]

I think...NO!

[dgibby]

1. Yes

He was stationed on the USS Enterprise, the first nuclear carrier.

[riqster]

2. Yep

Nuclear powered carriers. Crashed a plane into one IIRC.

[lutefisk]

4. He should have mentioned that: "My friends, I crashed an airplane into...

...a nuclear powered carrier and the damn thing didn't blow up or melt down. My friends, I think we can all agree that's a safe technology."

[riqster]

5. Most excellent!

:rofl:

[zerox]

16. Forrestal wasn't nuclear powered.

nm

[riqster]

19. Well, that makes the crash all better then. nt

[baldguy]

17. Well, THAT narrows it down...

[EmilyAnne]

3. Sorry, I was making a joke about calling them nuclear power PLANTS.

Obviously, it was not a good joke.

[Motown_Johnny]

14. to subtle for this crowd..... jokes about his cancer go over better

[davsand]

6. I thought they only had ships with sails back then.

Old as HE is I am amazed they even had internal combustion engines.



Laura

[WeDidIt]

7. He sure was.

Aircraft Carriers are nuclear powered.

[11 Bravo]

20. Not all of them. Forrestal and Oriskany were both steam powered.

And those are the two carriers with which McSame is most famously associated.

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. Mostly no - but may have been on Enterprise for short time

all others that I checked were apparently non-nuclear.

[msallied]

9. No. McCain's ships were powered by galley slaves.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. Huh?

[susanwy]

11. Yes

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf34.html">Nuclear-Powered Ships

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. There have been tons of Nuclear accidents on Nuclear ships

another lie. New Zealand won't even let them in their waters.

[Yukari Yakumo]

13. McCain is no Nuke

He possesses neither the smarts nor the insanity to be one.

[vaberella]

15. I was born in 1980 and I knew he was full of it on that one. n/t

[bklyncowgirl]

18. He was on the aircraft carrier Forrestal--according to Wikipedia that was not a nuclear ship. nt

[H2O Man]

21. Yes.

The 2008 Republican National Convention was held on the US Cherobyl. "Mission Accomplished."