Sydney C.
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This may be more appropriate in the Off Topic forum but since I encountered it while at USNA, and while also hoping it's not at the other SA's, I thought I'd get a point a view from others to get your take.
On I Day minus 1, I marched over to the Midshipman Store along with others to buy my swag along with one of the T-shirts that has the names of all the new Plebes on the back I plan to frame. Getting back home to our fair city, and upon closer examination of said shirt, I was completely dismayed to find that it was "Made in China" (I had done this last year as well when DS was first appointed before med DQ but never looked at it closely).
The irony was profound.Is it just me or does this just not seem right? I get the global economy, geopolitics, trading partner et al. but there seems to be something fundamentally wrong...and incredibly ironic... with a shirt I'm buying at one of America's premier military institutions (read, Made in America) that's been made and bought from anywhere else BUT America.
Please tell me I'm out of touch or behind the times. In the meantime, I'm just baffled.
On I Day minus 1, I marched over to the Midshipman Store along with others to buy my swag along with one of the T-shirts that has the names of all the new Plebes on the back I plan to frame. Getting back home to our fair city, and upon closer examination of said shirt, I was completely dismayed to find that it was "Made in China" (I had done this last year as well when DS was first appointed before med DQ but never looked at it closely).
The irony was profound.Is it just me or does this just not seem right? I get the global economy, geopolitics, trading partner et al. but there seems to be something fundamentally wrong...and incredibly ironic... with a shirt I'm buying at one of America's premier military institutions (read, Made in America) that's been made and bought from anywhere else BUT America.
Please tell me I'm out of touch or behind the times. In the meantime, I'm just baffled.