Fighter pilots are officers not because they are in charge of personnel ~ they're not ~ but because they're in charge of an incredibly valuable/expensive piece of military hardware.

McCain didn't become a "leader of men" until he was captured and wound up in the Hanoi Hilton, where his rank put him in a position of authority over enlisted-personnel POWs.

No one would argue that he did anything less than a great job in those difficult circumstances.

How that background translates into qualification for the Presidency is a matter open to debate.

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I make less then $4 million per year, and I'm not wealthy.

The vast majority of Americans make less than $4M ~ a lot less ~ and are making less and less every year, adjusting for inflation.

Those who are making, say, $3.99 million are doing quite well for themselves, and are only getting fatter and fatter all the time at the expense of the rest of us.

I'd say the "cutoff" figure between the rich and the rest of us is closer to a quarter-million per year or less, maybe as low as $150,000.

My sister told me several years ago that the crucial economic dividing line in our society is that between people who own stock and those who don't. I think she was onto something there, although ownership of a small number of shares doesn't mean much. Folks who collect a significant portion of their income from stocks participate in the predatory growth of corporations (non-human "legal individuals") at the expense of individual persons such as their employees and customers.