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Army plans for a potential parade on Trump’s birthday call for 6,600 soldiers, AP learns
AP News ^ | Updated 6:14 PM CDT, May 1, 2025 | LOLITA C. BALDOR

Posted on 05/01/2025 5:43:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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The planning documents, obtained by the AP, are dated April 29 and 30 and have not been publicly released. They represent the Army’s most recent blueprint for its long-planned 250th birthday festival on the National Mall...

It's for the US Army's 250 year celebration that they might hold on Trump's birthday, but the title has the obligatory anti-Trump spin.

1 posted on 05/01/2025 5:43:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tanks. TANKS! Give me some tanks! I wanna see the asphalt buckle under their weight.


2 posted on 05/01/2025 5:48:35 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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Absolutely! It’s going to be brutal marching in the July heat on that asphalt.


3 posted on 05/01/2025 5:51:15 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One w!as a cylindrical object)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This should happen on base somewhere. Easier logistics, and it doesn’t look so Third World. A parade after a war is one thing, but this isn’t a good luck to do it in DC. Hope they do it somewhere else. It would be perfect on one of our military bases.


4 posted on 05/01/2025 5:54:26 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Total Bias! June 14th is Flag Day, the Army’s birthday, and Mr. Trump’s birthday.


5 posted on 05/01/2025 5:56:32 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: Delta 21

They should use the capitol for target practice.


6 posted on 05/01/2025 5:57:47 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We had more 82nd, Marines, and National Guard when I was there in Mayday of 71.


7 posted on 05/01/2025 6:01:47 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Just imagine if a call goes out to all current and former service members to join in the celebration.

I wonder if The Saluting Marine would be available?


8 posted on 05/01/2025 6:05:33 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well the AP you take with a grain of salt since they literally refuse to call the Gulf of America…the Gulf of America


9 posted on 05/01/2025 6:25:28 PM PDT by Lod881019
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doesn’t matter, the talking point has been defined, and no truth will overtake the weak minded.


10 posted on 05/01/2025 6:58:19 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: Lysandru

That’s right.


11 posted on 05/01/2025 7:03:34 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I love the idea of a Flag Day/ USArmy/ President birthday celebrating. But I also am very concerned about big spending, rising debt ceiling, lack of a bidet, $37T of debt and collapse of the USA. Can we keep these factors in mind for a meaningful celebration?
P.S. The AP can suck lemons.


12 posted on 05/01/2025 10:01:14 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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LOL... lack of a BUDGET not a bidet. That’s a funny spellcheck fail.


13 posted on 05/01/2025 10:02:18 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Invade Canada and hold the parade in Ottawa or Montreal.


14 posted on 05/02/2025 3:16:09 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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To: Delta 21

Tanks!
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Giddy-Up with The Heavy Armour!
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April 29-—Saddle Up Boys!


15 posted on 05/02/2025 3:43:43 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When was the last parade held on June 14th? Oh yeah, NEVER. This is about the liar in chief’s ego and stroking it.


16 posted on 05/02/2025 5:15:48 AM PDT by pacific_waters
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To: ansel12

I remember that. We were dragging the hippies over to RFK stadium by the busload.


17 posted on 05/02/2025 8:02:33 AM PDT by ABN 505 (+)
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I was held in the coliseum for several days and then the DC jail.

In the Coliseum there was no food, no showers or blankets, we did have water from the bathroom sinks and drinking fountains.

About day 2 or 3 the national Guard raised up some money and bought us all a single small hamburger each that they brought in and we dispersed (effectively) among ourselves, about 3,000 of us, an exercise that I doubt modern Americans could pull off well, but that was the only food.

The DC jail was great on food, it was a slice of bologna between two dry slices of white bread but they would shove in a big box filled with them and you could eat all you wanted.


18 posted on 05/02/2025 8:39:39 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ABN 505

Were you part of the 4,000 82nd guys?


19 posted on 05/02/2025 10:04:13 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Yes , it was a shitty job but we could not stand the hippies and it was a pleasure to give them a lesson in reality, bunch of crybabies! I’m sure you had some spit,bottles of piss and other crap come your way from the lefties. Funny how all that disappeared down the media memory hole.


20 posted on 05/02/2025 3:08:29 PM PDT by ABN 505 (+)
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