Posted on 03/09/2018 6:13:38 PM PST by mdittmar
WASHINGTON (AP) — It looks like President Donald Trump is getting the military parade he wants in Washington — though he may get no tanks for the effort.
A Pentagon planning memo issued Thursday and released Friday says the parade being planned for Nov. 11, Veterans Day, will “include wheeled vehicles only, no tanks — consideration must be given to minimize damage to local infrastructure.” Big, heavy tanks could tear up District of Columbia streets.
But the event will “include a heavy air component at the end of the parade,” meaning lots of airplane flyovers. Older aircraft will be included as available.
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Why can’t the tanks just be on a trailer?
„Truck in a thousand prisoners to put down a 1’ layer of sand, and then shovel it back up. Better yet, round up all the college students in the metro DC area and put them to work.“
because nothing says land of the free like slave labor
“...we get tanks...”
You’re welcome
Terrific idea! And paint Trump’s plane camo.
To bad they haven’t fixed Memorial bridge yet.
How about a hypersonic cruise missile fly by? With red, white, and blue contrails, of course!
And a live GoPro feed from on board!
I think we scrapped most of our tanks, so this decision makes sense.
I remember when we had TRAILERS to carry tanks.
I guess our military scrapped them too.
Oh please please please can we put John “I-Was-In-Vietnam-And-I-Have-The-Hat-To-Prove-It” Kerry in a rowboat and make him propel it down Pennsylvania Avenue????
Watched three Rambo movies in a row Thursday night/early morning. Lots of good shoot-em-up scenes in all three.
Then, so many Hollywood types complain about regular citizens having guns...
Another thing, go to the entrance of any military base and u find a guard with an m16, u would think an Abrams would be posted there too as a message and added security. I am willing to bet that no tanks are on any military bases.
I was a grunt and I can attest to that.
I was an NG 19k for a while after 4 years of the haze gray yacht club.
” though he may get no tanks for the effort.”
“Big, heavy tanks could tear up District of Columbia streets.”
More stupid fake news from the lying media.
I hope Trump will piss on this pile of journalist nonsense.
IOW, Trump wins and they specify no tanks/treaded vehicles when he probably never envisioned having something out there to tear up the infrastructure...
DC’s streets are a pothole-ridden nightmare. Tanks tear them up and guess what DC will do? Bill the federal taxpayer for repairing DC’s dang streets. God bless the tank corps, but I’m for making DC pay for its own dang road repair.
The subway in DC has enough problems no need to add to that already failing system.
Since 9/11 planes can’t fly over DC. I SAW THE BLUE ANGELS FLY INDC for the Reagan funeral procession it was amazing how low they flew. I’ve seen them many times but in DC it was the best get tickets and hotel rooms now.
It is my belief that the Standard Products Company made neoprene pads that were bolted on to tracks providing a coushioned surface while reducing the psf contact load.
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