Posted on 06/15/2025 5:40:34 AM PDT by hardspunned
President Donald Trump’s delivered remarks Saturday evening at a historic military parade honoring the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.
"Every other country celebrates their victories," he said. "It's about time America did too — that's what we're doing tonight."
"As we celebrate tonight, we also think of the hundreds of thousands of Army soldiers who have made the supreme sacrifice for our nation and selflessly laid down their lives in every war, from the revolution to the war on terror, to the Gold Star families with us today," he said.
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All that stuff you saw lasts only minutes on a Uke or Iranian battlefield. And those formations of soldiers was really cool but what about the modern battlefield? On the modern battlefield any concentration of troops not totally hidden dies immediately. A typical assault on the modern Uke battlefield consists of 5 or 6 Russian soldiers taking territory one tree line at a time. Why so few? Any more concentrated for a movement die immediately. Why so easy to take the vital tree line? The Ukes can only hide a few defenders, any more die immediately.
Do Not Let Your Sons and Grandsons Enlist. They will be slaughtered on an Iwo Jima scale if fighting in Iran. It would be a ghastly bloodbath while our moron generals finally learn the lesson a million and a quarter Uke men paid for with their lives.
The Army rock bans across the street doing instrumental covers of Heart, Metallica, guns and roses..... They did an awesome job!
Our parade was different. It shows us as defenders...by showing us what our troops personally use in everyday combat. It was a great historical show of our advances since colonial times.
It should be shown in every school in America.
The dog robots were amazing.
What a load of crap!
It was not what it was talked up to be. It was talked up to be a full on display of our superior current Military might. It was not, I was pleasantly surprised it was just a mild parade focused on minimal representations of history as it should be. Very humble and well organized. No Goose stepping... It fact I was mildly disappointed that way too many were marching out of step...
Two things I noticed. I had access to raw closed news feeds. So I had the chance to see things off broadcast most did not as they happened in real time.
The first was the love between Donald and Melania is real. The personal interaction between them was not broadcast but I was fortunate to have the chance to watch them together as they watched the parade. The loving interactions between two people who love each other were all there. The body language, the smiles, the mutual laughs, the occasional hand on the knee of each other as they conversed, all straight up display of their real love for each other. There were times Melania was giggling and leaning on him like a young bride. :)
And one of the coolest moments of the parade that I caught was when the Drones were flown by. It don’t know if anyone else caught it or not, but they were flown by side ways “Eyes Left” to the President as they went by. Nice touch... Drones with proper protocol... :)
Good entertainment! The Iranian mountains entertainment bonanza would be the most spectacular since Hürtgen Forest.
I agree... It was humble and historically focused rather than Military might in mass. Not at all what it was talked up to be... Not at all what the chest thumpers wanted...
‘Band’ not bans. Anyway, we enjoyed the entire event. But the reality of today’s combat is of remote gear doing much damage.
Ouch.
Thank God this increasingly unhinged original poster has been deactivated. I guess the final straw was calling Trump a lying sack of crap.
When he arrived, he found the greatest confusion prevailing. He said the entrenchments had been prepared according to argumentative whim and indolent caprice. He was assaulted by a terrible stench, because camps had not been laid out in an ordered manner and no latrines had been dug. There was a smallpox epidemic raging in Boston, so his second official order was “No Person is to be allowed to go to Fresh-water pond a fishing or on any other occasion as there may be a danger of introducing the smallpox into the army,” In 1777 he ordered the entire army to be vaccinated. He was unable to get accurate returns of personnel, munitions, and supplies, until he dealt with many who considered themselves officers. That is when he found out the British had more soldiers than he did, and most of the gunpowder had been expended just before he arrived during the battle of Bunker Hill.
In October 1781 Washington had an army which assaulted Redoubt 10 at Yorktown as convincingly as the French professional army conquered Redoubt 9. The defenses could then be enfiladed and Cornwallis surrendered. Next came the treaty of Paris in 1783
Fascinating...
Just kill youself already.
I had kin folk in the 11th NY Regiment out of Green County NY.
You are a ray of sunshine.
wow. My descendants were still in England and Norway.
He can’t talk right now. The lighting hit.
<< They will be slaughtered on an Iwo Jima scale if fighting in Iran. >
1) Comparing the militaries of Iran to Imperial Japan is ridiculous. If we did unleash our ground forces on Iran (which isn’t going to happen), it would look more like Gulf War I (which was a complete rout that ended in a few days) than like Iwo Jima.
2) The U.S. is not going to get into another social engineering, nation-building, “hearts and minds” type war, at least as long as a conservative is the CIC. Any offensive action taken against Iran would be short, with clear military objectives, and conducted primarily from the air and sea.
3) Enjoy Zottsville, jihadi propaganda boy.
That zot was a long time coming.
You don't want to show your enemy what you have or are capable of using. Some secrets need to be kept.
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