Posted on 02/07/2018 6:34:25 AM PST by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Defense is planning a military parade at the request of President Donald Trump, White House and Pentagon officials said Tuesday.
After observing the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris last year, Mr. Trump said he wanted to hold a similar parade on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, perhaps to celebrate the Fourth of July.
The French parade last July, which also marked the centennial of the U.S. entry into World War I, featured more than 6,000 service members, tanks and planes overhead in an elaborate display of military might. French President Emmanuel Macron invited Mr. Trump to watch the parade beside him.
“It was one of the greatest parades I’ve ever seen,” Mr. Trump said in September at the Lotte New York Palace hotel. “And to a large extent, because of what I witnessed, we may do something like that on July Fourth in Washington, down Pennsylvania Avenue. I don’t know. We’re going to have to try and top it.”
The Washington Post first reported the Mr. Trump had asked the Pentagon to arrange an event in the Bastille Day style. Pentagon officials said late Tuesday that plans were in their infancy.
On Wednesday, the chairman of the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joe Dunford, acknowledged the parade plans while traveling in Asia. “I’m aware of the president’s request and we are in the initial planning stages to meet the president’s direction,” he said during a stop in Bangkok.
The White House said the decision demonstrated Mr. Trump’s support for the military.
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You are the exact reason why we haven’t driven tanks down Pennsylvania Avenue thus far.
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Before you go lecturing others on history, I STRONGLY suggest you bone up on actual facts instead of blatantly supporting Marxist lies. We HAVE driven tanks down Pennsylvania Avenue on SEVERAL occasions! I saw it happen and was VERY proud!
And for what reason? To make the modern military feel good? Boy howdy! What could be more fun than a Washington DC, 95 degree, 90% humidity summer day, marching in a crowd in your Class A uniform, screwing up a perfectly good weekend?
If the step off is scheduled for 0900, the general will demand everyone be ready at 0700, in formation, the colonel will insist his regiment be standing tall at 0500, the company CO will have formation on the road at 0300...
The logistics is a nightmare. It's easier to coordinate an amphibious landing.
Agreed, we already have military parades on two other holidays. Bad idea and waste of money. Maybe something can be added to the next Veteran’s Day parade in Washington, D.C.
Do you think (operative word here - think) that a big Military Parade will snap the uninformed and the leftists out of the Marxist stupor?
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I KNOW a big military parade will cause some young people with no direction in life to reach out to the military for a future. As far as thinking, I have no doubt that my powers of intellectual reasoning supersede yours.You have tunnel vision. I would suggest you widen your perspective.
As far as coming up against the population that was “terrified” by duck and cover and the Cuban Missile Crisis, I have been confronting them since they appeared.
The following should be memorized:
“You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men. Yes, every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he’s not, he’s a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”
George S. Patton
Confrontation is my best friend.
Odd you should use a typical English expression. No wonder you don’t understand Americanism.
You’re from Vermont. ‘Nuff said. Too bad you ignore your history.
You don’t need a military parade to accomplish that.
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Obviously you think Coca Cola should stop advertising too just because they are the world’s leading soft drink!
Softies think we should be modest about our military might. I think we need to advertise it more like we did in WWII and immediately thereafter.
We don’t have to copy them.
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Are you DENSE? We would be copying ourselves. Your ignorance and tacit refusal to be educated by someone who knows history far more than you is appalling. MILITARY PARADES used to be quite common in this country before the commies convinced so many that we should be wimps instead of warriors. Grow UP!
Obviously you are 100% against ordinary risk. Do you ever go out in the rain?
Poor Night Hides Not appears to be at odds with the terms of service.
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Agreed. Unfortunately some others are far too tepid in their understanding of stimulating PRIDE in our military.Time we started playing cowboys and Indians again with real cap-shooters and bows and arrows!
Yep. Bad optics.
Nope. Great optics.
I’m not claiming I’m from Texas, as that is a fact. Being proud does not mean you have to be classless.
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Classless? Are you stating that General Eisenhower was “CLASSLESS?” Seems you are. Tanks rolled on Pennsylvania Avenue for each of his inaugurals. We need to get back to recognizing and celebrating our GENUINE heroes instead of worshiping really classless sports people and commie oriented movie stars.
And if you’re not from Texas, change your “handle” which is misleading.
This thread is a jaw dropper.
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I agree! Disgusting, isn’t it, to see Americans objecting to honoring our military! There is not a valid argument among the lot of naysayers! Revolting to say the least.
Love it!
I’m with you on this subject.
Sounds like the WH is walking this one back at the news conference today from do it to what would be the possibility?
“If I’m not soaking wet, not covered in ink or not bleeding then I didn’t have any fun.” That’s the way I was when I was a kid.
We need tanks, missiles, stealth......everything at our command.
> This thread is a real shocker. <
It is. And that’s because many here are ignoring one of Ronald Reagan’s great sayings: “The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.”
So, yeah. If a Freeper - and especially if a long-term Freeper - should disagree with me, I’ll respond by trying to bolster my argument. But I will not resort to name-calling. And I will not question his patriotism.
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