@ForwardCarolina Exactly why @NC_Governor should have stepped up instead of running from this. NC’s participation in this celebration would mean more of our state was running it. Shame on @RCRracing and whatever clown did this. Shame on gov for letting us be made fool on the national stage.
@mcblimp95 I mean yeah - they’ll make these commitments, bilk the donors they can, beg for money from the BoT / GA, and then ultimately students will pay more
Stuff like this is so incredibly disappointing. It doesn’t move the needle. It’s a bit self-aggrandizing. Intellectually (and factually) dishonest. Somewhat Hypocritical and (if actually acknowledged by the admin would be) self-defeating.
Also “divest” from some random consortium of entities we think are bad now; but also please allow me to keep some obscure university funded job that only makes college more expensive for the people who actually want to make the world a better place
Fact: The US Navy is in charged of the Baltimore Bridge salvage effort
Fact: The US Navy has more Admirals that warships
Fact: there is not one Admiral in uniform today who is a salvage master
Fact: salvage masters were once among the Navy’s most respected officers
Fact: during the Navy’s biggest crisis in history it made a salvage master it’s top Admiral and gave him 5 stars
Fact: for winning the entire F’n war Admiral King was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal
Fact: King already hade TWO Distinguished Service Medals for salvage operations
Opinion: this operation in Baltimore is going to be a painstaking long process costing billions of dollars.
Opinion: If the US Navy had not divested all its salvage equipment, subcontracted most of its salvage work to an overseas company, and still promoted experience hardened salvage masters to the rank of Admiral… this bridge could have been cleared in a few weeks
But today’s Admirals won’t be found on the decks of shipwrecks wearing wrinkled khakis. The hundreds of Admirals in today’s Navy prefer wearing starched Army camouflage to office jobs