The plan includes bringing 7,500 beds into a DC office building for soldiers. The latest price tag for the incident: numbers expected to rise to $30 million, or $45 million.
The White House is planning a Trump birthday parade to mark the 250th anniversary of the Army
The White House is planning a massive military parade to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Army and President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday.
According to Army planning documents, the massive military parade planned on June 14 (the 250th anniversary of the Army and President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday) features dozens of tanks reverberating through the city’s streets and 7,500 soldiers living in 7,500 soldiers with fighter planes heading over the ship.
USA Today had an exclusive look at the latest planning documents detailing the elaborate choreography needed for a massive military parade and an informal birthday party. On June 8, 1991, thousands of troops took place along with tanks and other armored vehicles paraded through Washington. It was to respect their victory in the Gulf War. After that, George H.W. Bush’s birthday was four days later.
Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy had thousands of troops when they took office. Eisenhower’s proud tank, jeep, and war plane.
The military, a constitutionally loyal and partyless institution, is balancing the new political agenda this time. Is the parade a celebration of the Army’s famed heritage?, Or a homage to Trump and a political movement he leads? Or both? Army officials say they have been planning a large celebration for their milestone anniversary for a long time.
But Democrats say Trump worked together in the parade for his own political purposes.
“This is Trump, it’s about making everything about his ego and him,” Sen. Jack Reed, a top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Wednesday.
“The only thing that disappoints him is that he couldn’t let his plane fly in the parade,” Trump is in discussions this week to receive the Boeing 747 gift from Qatar.
Trump claims that the parade is about celebrating “the greatest army in the world.”
The cost is “peanuts compared to the value of doing it,” he told Kristen Welker in a May 4 interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
$30 million price tag rises to nearly $45 million
The parade’s latest price tag: numbers expected to rise to $30 million, perhaps $45 million.
Soldiers and their equipment begin to arrive at the country’s capital from across the country for the few days leading up to the parade. They will be housed in a warehouse of the Department of Agriculture and former government, owned by the General Services Department on 7th Avenue.
Their chow consists of two MREs (meal ready meals) and one hot meal per day. You will also receive an additional fee of $50 per day.
Bring your sleeping bag, said a Pentagon official who is not permitted to publicly speak.
Their shower schedule will be set by the “mayor” appointed to oversee the housing complex in the building, officials said.
I struggle to find uniforms from the war of 1812
The parade pays homage to the army’s legacy from the Revolutionary War with soldiers in uniforms from the era. Some periods have proven more difficult to find clothes for the period than others. The army struggles to equip soldiers dressed in uniforms from the 1812 War and the Spanish-American War.
There are 120 vehicles including 24 Abrams tanks and 24 Bradley infantry combat vehicles, Similar to the design, the armored vehicle smaller than the tank and the four paladins are large self-propelled how cannons.
Vintage war planes such as the World War I II-Era B-17 bomber and the P-51 Mustang Fighter are scheduled to fly through the National Mall, Washington’s iconic open space that stretches from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial.. It is then followed by a new aircraft that includes 50 Apaches, Blackhawks and Chinook helicopters.
The parade will cross in front of a Constitutional Trump viewing stand just south of the White House at around 6pm. It ends with the finale of fireworks at dusk.
