Pshaw to your readers who think GWB was grandstanding by landing on the
carrier like that. Pshaw and fiddlesticks. The standard to be applied here
is WWCD–What would Churchill do? He would do exactly this (though his
minders would have put him in a straitjacket first). Heck, as I recall, the
old boy wanted to go in with the guys on D-Day, and was only stopped by
royal intervention.