The U.S. Army is planning a historic parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., on June 14 that will coincide with and be part of the Army’s long-planned 250th celebration.
The parade will involve some 6,600 soldiers, tanks and infantry vehicles, helicopter flyovers and parachute jumps, according to several people familiar with the planning effort, and will also occur on Donald Trump’s 79th birthday.
The timing and White House involvement in planning efforts have stoked speculation that Trump is using the Army’s birthday as an excuse to get the kind of grand military parade he wanted during his first term in office. That event was scrapped after estimates topped $90 million.
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Hey, maybe this will finally get U.S liberals to take the immense threat of blind nationalistic militarism in the U.S. seriously instead of just acquiescing to conservatives about everything on the topic… … …
…or it will just be a dress rehearsal for using the military to cement the Republican coup.
No more libraries, scientific research grants, or hurricane tracking… military parades instead!
… You could easily make an entire ‘you might be a redneck / here’s your sign’ style set out of insane things Trump and MAGA do that are just laughably over the top signs they are a moronic fascist cult, and you wouldn’t even have to hyperbolize…
But of course, the audience for such a set would boo and hiss and probably threaten the life of anyone who did that Netflix special, demand they be cancelled…
They do know he thinks of them as suckers and losers, right?
you know the countries that do military parades like that are usually weak presidents.
Usually military parades are a dictator thing not a president.
Dictators often adopt the trappings of a democratic system and go through the motions to run sham elections.
Pathetic. Let them eat cake while we burn money on useless shit. Fuck this administration.
I presume there’s Putin, Xi and Kim called as a guest?
Come to think about it, birthday military parades are a distinctly dictator cult of personality thing to have.
Jesus fucking Christ. Disgusting. Fuck the republican traitor filth.
Every soldier in that parade should get a medal saying they served there on that day. The amount of brass in bins will tell Trump everything he needs to know
Don’t see how this makes my eggs any cheaper…
All of the sudden I’m realizing that in seeing Abraham tanks for over 25 years I’ve never seen a green one, only sand yellow.
Kinda makes you think about the only place the US likes to invade all the time
abraham lincoln? i think you mean abrams tank.
Well its that and also a shit tonne of the storage facilities for the Abrams in particular are in California. Everything here is brown during certain times of the year, fuck even my pale ass has to be under at least a later of brown leather not to burn to shit.
Dictators love their parades.
Maybe he will participate. Be out in the open. Vulnerable.
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How is this making America great again? Why not just put out some floats? Why do we need to roll out the real equipment and spend millions while people are losing healthcare, SS and 401k?
I rather divide the 90 million and give every school in America 900 bucks.
We learned after Vietnam that we needed to support the troops and not condemn them for our President’s actions. We might have to re-evaluate this approach if they continue down this path. If the military does this and supports deporting American citizens, then we need to start booing them in public.
“Need to”? No we don’t. Some military people will insist we thank them for their service, but everyone in now is a volunteer that saw what the military has done and is used for and decided to sign up. It’s a job, with benefits and pay, and we don’t need to support them any more than we need to support any other job, especially as this job involves a willingness to kill someone just because someone else says so.
I personally support the troops and condemn the military.
If I meet an individual, that’s a person who has oftentimes been sent to places where their lives were in danger whether they really wanted to go or not.
However, I don’t support the leadership or the organization. I don’t believe we’ve needed to maintain such a large military force or use it to advance national interests. The USA has always been in a unique position geographically where a war couldn’t easily reach us.
The military preys on the poor and desperate. It brain washes those that don’t know fully what they are getting involved with.
True U.S. history isn’t taught until you hit college, which most enlistees have not done. However, being asked to attack your fellow citizens after being told to protect them is a choice.
they target alot of middle-class neighborhoods, on the low side, almost everyone in my former hs are not eligible for universities, even if they are none of them can pay for it. its not a poor, and not so rich neighborhood. i said they are sneaky in that they place thier recruiting stations just enough that you wouldnt notice its there unless you know where to look. i said they can only get so much from rural areas, as alot of them might not even pass the asvab, so they targeted the more educated but “poorer” minorities.
And they can freely walk away at any time. Yes, there may be financial penalties, but they’re not going to prison like when the draft existed, which makes this a question of “how much money do you need to be paid to do this”, not a person forced to participate against their will.
We owe them psychological counseling and healthcare for injuries inflicted during their time, but they aren’t special people we have some inherent duty to respect and provide for.
AWOL - Absence Without Leave. A violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. May result in an Article 15 Hearing, AKA Non-judicial Punishment, or Court Martial. Confinement may be one of the resulting punishments. Deserting assigned duty is absolutely not taken lightly. Anyone wishing to separate should find a different, more legal, way to do it. I’ve heard failing to pass the body composition or fitness standard is one of the easier ways to get a discharge prior to contract fulfillment. https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title10-section886&num=0&edition=prelim
You walk away without permission is called awal. That will get you arrested and put in the brig.
