Yes.....you are low class.
Since YOU were in the Navy about the time of the USS Forrestal incident
why don't you tell the Forum in YOUR own words what you recall from
fellow Navy personal about the " event "......
The Forrestal fire occurred on July 29, 1967 in the Gulf of Tonkin as a daily strike of aircraft was preparing for launch. I went to boot camp in Great Lakes Illinois in February 1969. On our designated day for outdoor firefighting training, it was cold enough that the training surface was covered with ice and it was deemed unsafe to perform the normal training routine. As a result, we got to watch firefighting movies, one of which was raw video recorded from cameras on the ship, one mounted near the top of the Forrestal island and another mounted directly in the flight deck surface. The instructors for that part of boot camp were firefighting experts, and they had seen all the videos many times before, so we got the benefit of expert narration. I also saw training videos made from that raw video at various times during my nearly 8 years of active duty.
The fire started when an unexpected electrical surge lit off the motor of a Zuni rocket mounted under the wing of an F-4 Phantom fighter jet. The rocket crossed the deck and struck the fuel tank and fuselage of McCain's A-4 Skyhawk on the other side of the ship, starting the fire. McCain escaped by shutting down his aircraft's engine, unbuckling from his seat, and running out to the end of refueling probe that was fixed in place forward on the A-4. While he was trying to help other pilots get out of their planes on the flight deck, bombs started cooking off, one of which almost blew McCain over the side and the shrapnel from which injured him. He was taken down to sickbay by a rescue crew.
As a result of that fire, many changes were made to Navy procedures and equipment. Test equipment was developed for rocket launcher pods so that those unwanted electrical discharges could be detected before they caused a problem. The particular kind of bombs being loaded for the strike that day were discarded - the flight deck leadership had been trained that bombs could sit for some time in a pool of burning jet fuel long enough to give a chance to put the fire out, which was true for the newest bombs, but the bombs in use that day had come on board the Forrestal that morning, and had been in storage since the Korean War and were an older model that were not as fire-resistant. When the bombs had been received, the ship and airwing supply officers wanted to dump them over the side; they were overruled by a decision to get rid of them by dropping them on Vietnam.
The biggest change recognized that the best fire-fighting crews had all been killed because they bravely followed procedure and ran right into the fire. After the first 2 bombs went off, there was no one left on the flight deck who had been trained how to fight a jet fuel fire with the onboard equipment. Before we took the Enterprise to sea in 1974, everyone in the air wing got a turn operating a fire hose and the various attachments, and senior petty officers took turns acting in command of the crews.