Re: Promoted for failure...
A certain former US Senator was once a Marine Pilot... involved in some accidental missile firing on top of a Carrier deck. That missile hit another airplane and it went as well as you'd expect.
A little fact checking here.. The errant missile wasn't launched from his plane. It was from one on the other side of the carrier and due to static as the techs connected the missile to the fire control system. And the senator is still an active senator. Oh, and he was Navy not Marine.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
