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Trump Asks Pentagon to Plan Military Parade
Wall Street Journal ^ | February 7, 2018 | Julie Bykowicz

Posted on 02/07/2018 6:34:25 AM PST by reaganaut1

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Defense is planning a military parade at the request of President Donald Trump, White House and Pentagon officials said Tuesday.

After observing the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris last year, Mr. Trump said he wanted to hold a similar parade on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, perhaps to celebrate the Fourth of July.

The French parade last July, which also marked the centennial of the U.S. entry into World War I, featured more than 6,000 service members, tanks and planes overhead in an elaborate display of military might. French President Emmanuel Macron invited Mr. Trump to watch the parade beside him.

“It was one of the greatest parades I’ve ever seen,” Mr. Trump said in September at the Lotte New York Palace hotel. “And to a large extent, because of what I witnessed, we may do something like that on July Fourth in Washington, down Pennsylvania Avenue. I don’t know. We’re going to have to try and top it.”

The Washington Post first reported the Mr. Trump had asked the Pentagon to arrange an event in the Bastille Day style. Pentagon officials said late Tuesday that plans were in their infancy.

On Wednesday, the chairman of the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joe Dunford, acknowledged the parade plans while traveling in Asia. “I’m aware of the president’s request and we are in the initial planning stages to meet the president’s direction,” he said during a stop in Bangkok.

The White House said the decision demonstrated Mr. Trump’s support for the military.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; likefrance; likenorthkorea; likerussia; parade; pentagon; trumpdod; usmilitary
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To: ExpatGator

Then don’t call yourself an expat.


261 posted on 02/07/2018 4:48:43 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Chainmail

“Really? Service to our country should be the very first stop in adulthood for every able-bodied American man, particularly in wartime.”

In war time yes,but why in peacetime?

There are many other routes to adulthood.

Some people just aren’t suited for military service and the military is better off without them.

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262 posted on 02/07/2018 4:53:14 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears
Some people just aren’t suited for military service

Like the President, for example.

263 posted on 02/07/2018 5:00:39 PM PST by corlorde ( QANON: A new cult with their own "special" language.)
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To: bigdaddy45; DoodleDawg

She is a liberal so you’d like her I am sure.


264 posted on 02/07/2018 5:08:36 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: central_va

Although I am not against stuff like personel carriers like stryker vehicles, but to haul abrams and other tracked to there would be foolish.

Have you any idea what the rate is per hour for lowboys these days? And it isnt the military who haul those in this country, its private trucking firms or the RR.


265 posted on 02/07/2018 5:16:02 PM PST by crz
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To: jonascord

GTH!!! I have forgotten more than you will ever know. Georgie was Numero Uno in Operation Torch. He was the acknowledged expert at the time. Go study your history and I mean MILITARY HISTORY, not the commie funny books.

I suggest you cast a glance at THE HARMON MEMORIAL LECTURES IN MILITARY HISTORY. Page 210, 211, 212 will surprise you and back up my assertions. I imagine you didn’t know Patton got his pilot’s license either. He did so in order to understand the “developing maturity of air power.”

While Marines assisted in training for the invasion of Sicily in advising Eisenhower,and subsequent landings in the ETO, operation Torch was our first entry into the European war Nov.8, 1942. The Marines were then busy in the Pacific.


266 posted on 02/07/2018 5:16:57 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mollypitcher1

Yup. ALL the military schools.


267 posted on 02/07/2018 5:17:04 PM PST by crz
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To: central_va; DoodleDawg

My apologies to DoodleDawg. But none to you Sir. You are incapable of reasoned debate, so instead decide to impugn good conservatives with spurious accusations. If I didn’t know better, i’d say you’re a troll.


268 posted on 02/07/2018 5:18:52 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: bigdaddy45

I want reasoned debate. But some of the hard heads are impossible to debate.


269 posted on 02/07/2018 5:20:30 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Leaning Right

You too need to study Patton.


270 posted on 02/07/2018 5:20:57 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mears
Rubbish - even those "unsuited" for military service can still load ammunition boxes and fill sandbags.

We are always at war: as long as we are who we are, we are under attack.

I reiterate: it is ever able-bodied man's duty.

271 posted on 02/07/2018 5:26:17 PM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Chainmail

Want to hear something really strange? “conservatives” who let other people take the hardships and risks for our freedom. And then complain when we might have a military parade.
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Right ON!!!


272 posted on 02/07/2018 5:28:35 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: crz
"Have you any idea what the rate is per hour for lowboys these days? And it isnt the military who haul those in this country, its private trucking firms or the RR."

All good training for deployments across the country, as we would during war.

I think you missed the parade that was held in Washington at the end of the Gulf War: we had M-1 tanks, M109A3 Howitzers, Bradleys and a host of other vehicle - plus aircraft flyovers. Easy-peasey.

273 posted on 02/07/2018 5:30:04 PM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Mollypitcher1

I’m an expat from my home state of Florida. It’s sort of a play on words and concepts. I’ll engage in whatever wordplay I see fit, particularly when formulating a nickname/username.
By the way, who died and made you the username police? Seriously, lighten up, Francis.


274 posted on 02/07/2018 5:32:32 PM PST by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: DoodleDawg

Dang, D’Dawg, I think you’ve found an admirer. A really creative one with an extremely witty turn of phrase.


275 posted on 02/07/2018 5:35:07 PM PST by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: Vermont Lt

Call me names all you please. Doesn’t faze me one bit. Your image of our military “prancing around” shows the immaturity of your so-called cerveau.It also shows you’ve obviously been brain washed to never show our military in a good light.


276 posted on 02/07/2018 5:38:15 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Chainmail

Very ell Said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


277 posted on 02/07/2018 5:42:20 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mollypitcher1

I agree with you two. Being a Vietnam Vet ... I would like to have the welcome home parade that we never had. I bel8eve it will go a long way to helping rebuild the American morale that has been beat down by liberals and fake conservatives for so long .... AND it will tweak the noses of the stinking liberal ... I for one will enjoy seeing their heads explode. That one thing would make the parade worthwhile. As far as the military personal wanting the time off instead of the parade. Well each to their ... but I know that I personally March in the various veteran thanking parades in my area ... and I love it


278 posted on 02/07/2018 5:42:41 PM PST by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: Chainmail

Yup! Spectacular. Tin Can sailors have a lot to be proud of!


279 posted on 02/07/2018 5:47:12 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: bigdaddy45

So in other words, our fighting men aren’t adequately prepared unless they participate in a parade first?
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Where did I ever make such a statement? Your problem is you are blind to the positive aspects of honoring our military. You’ve been listening too much to the “other side of the aisle.”


280 posted on 02/07/2018 5:52:34 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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