Posted on 07/02/2019 7:55:09 AM PDT by SMGFan
President Trump’s dream of a celebration showing off America's military capabilities will become a reality on Thursday, as the president confirmed tanks will play a role in Washington, D.C.’s Fourth of July festivities -- and the vehicles were seen being hauled in on a freight train.
An Associated Press photographer spotted the two M1A1 Abrams tanks, along with four other military vehicles, in a railyard at the southeastern edge of Washington. A military official earlier told the AP that the tanks were transported north from Fort Stewart in Georgia.
This comes after the president said Monday: "We're going to have some tanks stationed outside."
The vehicles include M1A1 Abrams tanks, the type currently used by American armed forces, as well as Sherman tanks, the kind commonly used during World War II, according to the president. Having tanks rolling down the streets of D.C. had raised concerns due to their weight, with the Abrams tanks weighing upwards of 60 tons each. Trump acknowledged these concerns Monday, without offering many details.
"You've got to be pretty careful with the tanks because the roads have a tendency not to like to carry heavy tanks," Trump said Monday. "So we have to put them in certain areas, but we have the brand new Sherman tanks and we have the brand new Abrams tanks."
The military display is all part of the “Salute to America” event that Trump is putting on this Thursday.
"I'm going to say a few words and we're going to have planes going overhead, the best fighter jets in the world and other planes, too," Trump said. This includes a demonstration by the U.S. Navy Blue Angels.
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Business oppty there, SD.
Rainbow paint job?
Could a Tiger II hold up a thousand Shermans? Because for every over-engineered unreliable POS Tiger II built, there were a thousand highly mobile and reliable Shermans built.
Besides, our tanks were not designed to go head to head with other tanks. Tank doctrine in WW2 was that tanks were designed to support infantry. It was the tank destroyers like the Wolverine and the Hellcat that were designed take on enemy tanks.
Oops. Hundred. Not thousand. There were a hundred Shermans for each Tiger II.
So help me understand what flag I viewed in a museum in DC.
Huge flag behind glass. Not Betsy’s?
When the tigers were actually running.
They ought to post some hog crossing signs too.
No pics. Don’t know:
Don’t know about hogs, but I ran over the biggest possum I’ve ever seen, on that highway.
MAGA!
Yeah...Trump is counting on them to double down on their America hatred! Fun times!
Mayor Bowser is going to be really pissed. DCs roads are a mess as it is
Great! Park em so they are all pointed at the capital building.
True...when it was operational...which was not that often LOL!
The movie “Fury” has a great scene that shows this well.
Over 39,000 Sherman tanks were
built vs 1350 Tiger tanks in
about the same four year period.
What the Sherman lacked in battle
prowess was overcome by shear
numbers.
Kaepernick and Nike should take some of their millions, buy a book on logic, and look up the "association" fallacy: Because Nazis allegedly used the Betsy Ross flag, everyone who uses it must be a Nazi. And Sir Isaac Newton was gay because he investigated the apparent splitting of white light into rainbow colors. And Noah was gay because he saw the rainbow sign.
If it hasn't happened already, leftists will find a Nazi who agrees with something posted on FR and claim that makes FR a Nazi site.
This is also an example of the "association fallacy:" Because two people have something in common, they are the same.
Great idea.
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