How Many John McCain Children Served in the Military? | Heavy.com
Three of John McCain's seven children have served in the U.S.
military, continuing a storied family tradition that dates back generations.
Indeed, three of McCain's four sons have served in the Armed Forces.
Jimmy McCain served his country in Iraq and Afghanistan for both the U.S.
Marines and the Army.
Doug McCain was a Navy pilot, and Jack McCain has served as a Navy pilot.
John McCain tried to keep his children's military service relatively quiet over the years, although his wife, Cindy McCain, often recognizes her children's service on social media.
Jimmy and Jack (also known as John) McCain are John McCain's children with his second wife, Cindy, a brewery distributor heiress.
McCain, who died at age 81 of brain cancer, also had three children with his first wife, Cindy Shepp McCain, including Doug, whom he adopted.
Jimmy and Jack McCain wore military uniforms during their father's memorial services.
McCain Tried to Keep His Son Jimmy's Deployment to Iraq Private.
One reason John McCain hadn't talked much about his children's military service before he died: He was apparently worried it could make them a target due to his own prominence.
However, when news leaked out in 2008 that his son Jimmy was serving in Iraq, he did express his pride.
When he went to Iraq, Jimmy McCain was only 19-years-old.
At the time, his dad had made his support for the war in Iraq a centerpiece of his presidential campaign.
According to The Independent, McCain even managed to keep his son's presence in Iraq quiet when he flew overseas to have dinner with the troops.
"We really never talk about our sons.
We have two sons in the military but we never talk about it, if that's all right.
I am so proud of both of them," John McCain told Fox News of Jimmy and his brother, Jack.
John McCain expressed pride in Jimmy even as the deployment worried him at the time.
"I'm obviously very proud of my son," the elder McCain told Time, "but also understandably a little nervous.
At the time Jimmy McCain enlisted in the U.S.
Marines, Cindy McCain had to sign consent forms for his medical examination, according to The Independent.
His mother wrote that he served in the Army after leaving the Marines.
Jack & Doug McCain Also Served in the U.S.
Military, Continuing the Family Tradition.
Doug McCain is McCain's oldest son.
The late senator adopted Doug and his brother, Andrew, when he married their mother, Carol Shepp McCain, his first wife.
Douglas McCain served as a U.S.
Navy pilot.
He now works as a pilot for American Airlines.
Jack McCain, McCain's other son with Cindy McCain, his second wife, attended the U.S.
Naval Academy in Annapolis.
He became a Navy helicopter pilot.
McCain's own father was a prominent Admiral in the U.S.
military.
According to Biography.com, "The son of a decorated Navy admiral, John McCain was born at the Coco Solo Naval Station in Panama on August 29, 1936.
He enrolled at the U.S.
Naval Academy and was dispatched to Vietnam, where he was tortured as a prisoner of war between 1967 and 1973.".
He was born John Sidney McCain III, "the second of three children born to naval officer John S.
McCain Jr.
and his wife, Roberta." It was a family with a long legacy of military service.
"Both McCain's father and paternal grandfather, John S.
McCain Sr., were four-star admirals, with John Jr.
rising to command U.S.
naval forces in the Pacific," Biography.com reported.
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