WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) – A military parade requested by President Donald Trump will take place in November on Veterans Day in Washington D.C., but to minimize damage to roads it will not include tanks, a Pentagon memo released on Friday said.
Last month Trump asked the Pentagon to explore a parade in celebration of American troops, after the Republican president marveled at the Bastille Day military parade he attended in Paris last year.
The memo listed a number of guidelines for the parade on Nov. 11 and said the parade route will be from the White House to the Capitol and have a “heavy air component at the end of the parade.”
“Include wheeled vehicles only, no tanks – consideration must be given to minimize damage to local infrastructure,” the memo said.
It added that the parade would focus on the contributions of U.S. military veterans throughout history, starting from the American Revolutionary War.
Critics have argued that a parade could cost millions of dollars at a time when the Pentagon wants more stable funding for an over-stretched military.
The parade will cost taxpayers up to $30 million, the White House budget chief has said.
Military parades in the United States are generally rare. Such parades in other countries are usually staged to celebrate victories in battle or showcase military might.
In 1991, tanks and thousands of troops paraded through Washington to celebrate the ousting of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces from Kuwait in the Gulf War.
The District of Columbia Council had ridiculed the idea of a parade on Pennsylvania Avenue, the 1.2-mile (1.9-km) stretch between the Capitol and the White House that is also the site of the Trump International Hotel.
“Tanks but no tanks!” it tweeted last month. (Reporting by Idrees Ali; Editing by Cynthia Osterman and James Dalgleish)
wonder if there will be any rainbow floats in that parade
Without tanks now I know I will not be going …. laughting
The display of “hundreds” of missiles and rockets would be an attempt “to scare the hell out of the Americans,” one of the sources said.”
Quote from- http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/trump-tells-pentagon-plan-military-parade/218124
Future generations will ask why Americans didn’t resist when the US became a police state.
Having tanks has not stopped resistance in palestine.
Recent articles in the news about inability of recruits to throw a grenade a certain distance and 70% of young recruits unable to pass a physical. Fake news? 2016 defence budget passed in June 2016…appropriated $630 billion….Last year was $700 billion. When the boy got eaten by the alligator in 2016 at Disney World that week ALL ! media had coverage ad nauseum for days rather than discuss what Congress was doing. American bases around the world 400+ / Russia has…..3 ?
Around 5000 domestic according to The Pentagon in 2014….and the clandestine secret ones???????
‘The parade will cost taxpayers up to $30 million’
http://www.socialsolutions.com/blog/2016-homelessness-statistics/ …
‘what does homelessness look like in 2016? The following statistics are alarming:
•564,708 people in the U.S. are homeless………………..’
too busy giving the farm away to the illegals