Dotard gets Pyongyang Styled NDP Parade in Washington without tanks

[Ang4MohTrump]

Dotard's dream, Rocketman should bait him to take part in Pyongyang NDP, shoot him dead on the parade. Anwar Sadat style.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...on-just-not-the-tanks/?utm_term=.de722aec7651

Trump will get the military parade he wanted — just not the tanks

By Marwa Eltagouri March 9 at 8:44 PM Email the author

President Trump and his wife, Melania, attend the traditional Bastille Day military parade in Paris on July 14, 2017. (Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images)

President Trump’s wish for a military parade in Washington on Veterans Day has been granted.

But it won’t resemble the Bastille Day celebration in France that Trump had leaned on for inspiration. To minimize damage to Washington’s streets, the parade will include only wheeled vehicles — and not the heavy military vehicles, like tanks, that line the streets of Paris on Bastille Day, according to a Pentagon memo released Friday and first obtained by CNN. The parade will also include a “heavy air component,” the memo said, with military planes flying overhead at the end of the parade.

Trump had directed the Pentagon to plan a parade for later this year, possibly on Veterans Day, to showcase the U.S. military’s strength. The idea came to him after attending the Bastille Day celebration last year with French President Emmanuel Macron.

His original vision for the parade, in which soldiers would march down boulevards alongside tanks, was expected to cost between $10 million and $30 million, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said last month.

Trump acknowledged the expense but insisted it would be “great for our country.”

“We’ll see if we can do it at a reasonable cost, and if we can’t, we won’t do it, but the generals would love to do it, I can tell you, and so would I,” Trump said while calling in to a Fox News show in late February.

[Trump would like to see a military parade on Veterans Day with ‘a lot of plane flyovers’]

The memo outlining the parade does not mention its estimated costs. It was sent from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s office to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who will organize the event, and offers guidance as to how the parade will be carried out.

It will correspond with Washington’s annual Veterans Day parade and focus on the contributions of U.S. veterans “from the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 to today, with an emphasis on the price of freedom,” according to the memo. The parade route will run from the White House to the Capitol.

 

[Ang4MohTrump]

Shot dead at NDP by rebel soldiers.

 

[Ang4MohTrump]

So Trump can not get his big tank NDP but just a tiny Master Parade, he forgot that USA soldiers match very poorly, worse than Ah-Neh-land troops!

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-parade-trump-20180309-story.html

Pentagon proposes scaled-down military parade, not one with tanks and firepower that Trump envisioned




By David S. Cloud
Mar 09, 2018 | 8:50 PM
| Washington

President Trump joins French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris in July to review France's annual Bastille Day military parade, which inspired Trump to seek a similar event in Washington. (Associated Press)

Pressed by President Trump, the Pentagon is proposing to stage a military parade in November with veterans in historic uniforms and warplanes, but no tanks — a scaled-down version of the grand display of military might the president envisioned, according to a memo released by the Pentagon on Friday.

Veterans in "period uniforms" from past wars would march from the White House to the Capitol on Nov. 11 — Veterans Day — joined by "wheeled vehicles only, no tanks," to "minimize damage to local infrastructure," the planning document says.

Trump asked the Defense Department to plan a parade of the U.S. armed forces to celebrate military strength, much like France's annual Bastille Day parade that he and First Lady Melania Trump attended in July in Paris as the guests of French President Emmanuel Macron.

But Pentagon officials, citing the cost, logistical difficulties and rarity of large-scale military parades in the United States, have sought to shift the focus to celebrating American history and the contributions of veterans, and away from displaying military hardware and row after row of marching troops — a scene more associated with autocratic nations, from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to, in the present age, Russia and North Korea.



At the end of the parade, "a heavy air component" of warplanes would conduct flyovers that would include "older aircraft as available," the document says.

"The parade will focus on the contributions of our veterans throughout the history of the U.S. military, starting from the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 to today, with an emphasis on the price of freedom," the memo reads.

The event will also "highlight the evolution of women veterans" who served in separate units during World War II but today can serve in combat units, it adds.

Veterans and Medal of Honor recipients would join Trump at a reviewing area at the Capitol.

The memo described the plan as "initial guidance." It is unclear whether Trump will be satisfied with the Pentagon plan, which one official said was still a work in progress.

The memo, issued by the office of Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis, went to Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"I can confirm that the Joint Staff has received planning guidance for the parade from DOD and that planning is underway," said a spokesman for Dunford, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified.

The United States traditionally has not embraced showy displays of raw military hardware, such as North Korea's displays of ballistic missiles in its bid for international prestige and influence. Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney, estimated last month that the parade could cost as much as $30 million.

U.S. military members commonly participate in parades on the Fourth of July and other holidays to signify appreciation and remembrance of veterans. Yet these events typically do not include military equipment.

Pentagon officials have said privately that bringing tanks, artillery and other weapons to Washington, as well as hundreds of troops to march, would be a massive logistical headache at a time when the military is engaged in combat in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The memo does not specify how many active-duty or reserve troops would participate in the parade, a question that officials said was still being decided. At least some would likely be required to drive the vehicles and fly the aircraft.

The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, an Army musical unit that dresses in Revolutionary War uniforms, would participate in the parade, the memo says.

The Pentagon last staged a parade in Washington in 1991 to celebrate victory in the first Persian Gulf War, which saw a vast U.S.-led military coalition push Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.

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