Military Parade

Well, according to at least one first world grandstander, the idea of a parade is Thirder World BS:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/bin...eal-oneill-says-trump-parade-is-bad-idea.html

I can't even believe there is any actual discussion of this among the Pentacrats. The idea of military parade a la Republic Day in France, replete with tanks, rocket launchers, etc. simply doesn't fit us. Its like a saddle on a cow.
 
Did you get a lot of beads?

I have my old beer mug that used to hang at the Club on my bar at home, the thing is filled with Mardi Gras beads. How we got some of them will forever remain classified.
 
If it is to show appreciation for our service members than I am all for it.

I spent the better part of 3 years in DC planning all that Military Pomp you see on TV. The logistics of this type of a large scale parade is a nightmare, and that's just regarding the personnel, the hardware is even worse.

If we want to show appreciation to our service members then don't make them spend their off duty time practicing for a parade like this, not to mention the preparation time to move that type of hardware to DC. They will need to go outside the DC area to get the manpower for a parade like this, the Honor Guard units in DC will not be nearly enough to fill even a single block of the parade. The incoming service members will need to be housed, they will be away from their families, and if this happens on a holiday weekend they lose their normal 4 day weekend. That may sound trivial but these guys hate to miss them, it's a great time to spend with family.
Now consider if they do this over the 4th of July, have you been in DC for the 4th, hot and humid is an understatement. While the parade may last 2 hours, these service members will be out there hours early just standing around in the heat in full gear, Believe me, appreciation is not what they will be feeling.

You want to show appreciation for our service members, have a civilian parade outside a military base, throw a big Military Appreciation Day at a base and invite the service members and their families. Don't take away their off duty time to prepare for a parade, make them stand around all day in 100 degree heat and then march down the street so they can be a photo op. There are professional Honor Guard units in DC that are paid to do just that, it's what they do and they do it well.

Military units get the chance to march in local parades, they get the applause from the crowds showing their appreciation, but trust me, very few actually enjoy having to do those parades.

I'm not trying to make a blanket statement that everyone hates doing these parade, just that given the choice most would take a pass.
I spent 20 years active and 10 years retired serving our country and know what it's like to be voluntold to participate. Yes, I've been in DC for the July 4th parade. "...but trust me, very few actually enjoy having to do those parades." You can't possibly know how every service member feels. Obviously, I just stated my opinion and it differed from yours. "...so they can be a photo op." Again, you are stating opinion because we don't know the true intention of the parade. Hence my opinion of being torn. You can have your opinion, as well...but please speak for yourself and not all service members.
 
In all seriousness, this is an incredibly bad idea from a security aspect. Having thousands and possibly tens of thousands of our military members in one unsecured location unarmed is quite possibly the stupidest idea this administration has come up with and that is saying something! This is a terrorists fantasy come true! My hope is someone grows a pair in Washington and this plan gets squashed.
 
Well, according to at least one first world grandstander, the idea of a parade is Thirder World BS:

"A military parade is third world bull****. We prepare. We deter. We fight. Stop this conversation."

He forgot to add "We write a book" to his comment.
 
I want to be a part of the Irish wolfhound group in the Alexandria St. Patrick’s Day parade....

Those are some tall dogs!
 
A parade is a bad idea, however

If we care so much about what happens to our military members, we shouldn’t send them to foreign countries to defend freedom.

Let the planners figure it out how to do a parade.

If you think because we didn’t do a parade that somehow money we would have used would end up for training or parts, you obviously don’t know how military finance works.

Some young soldiers actually might want to be in a parade in DC - like a bucket list.

Like it or not, we obey lawful orders from our civilian leaders. A military parade might not be practical, but can’t live life doing just practical things.

Lastly, if we are so much against military parade we should start a petition to cancel parades at West Point, as for other academies I am sure what they do, there are so many things cadets could do other carrying an old rifle a
 
I have my old Pat O'Brien's Hurricane glasses with beads. How I got them I don't remember and will never tell If I did remember. Go Mardis Gras. Those Woolf Hounds are some big Dogs.
 
Big military parades (marching soldiers, tanks, and mobile ICBM launchers) make me think of the sabre-rattling of the USSR, China, and North Korea.

Not the USA.

Blech.
 
Big military parades (marching soldiers, tanks, and mobile ICBM launchers) make me think of the sabre-rattling of the USSR, China, and North Korea.

Not the USA.

Blech.

Clearly, you hate freedom.

Just kidding.

The only reason for a parade in DC later this year has nothing to do with honoring the troops, or honoring the nation, or honoring the centennial of WW1 victory.

It is 100% to boost the egg-shell fragile ego of the child-in-chief, whose family has never produced a single veteran of the US military, who treats the military like purchased possessions ("My generals...."), who wilts like a starry-eyed schoolgirl in the presence of bloody dictators but spews nothing short of hatred towards democratically elected leaders, who holds absolute disdain for free speech and an independent press, who regards allies as "foes" (his word) and adversaries as friends, and (some) Nazis as "very fine people." First POTUS ever to openly sympathize with Nazis. First POTUS ever to trash US intelligence (repeatedly) at the behest (or demand?) of a Russian tyrant. Speaks with the eloquence of a someone who learned English last month - in an after-hours Yonkers barroom. Believes Canada and Britain are national security threats to the USA, but is willing to hand deliver US diplomats to be interrogated by the GRU.

The only way to convince the Bombastic-One not to hold the ego-centric parade is to tease him with the idea of using the savings to spend on investigations to find the 44th president's "REAL" birth certificate. You know, that uppidity one ("boy"?) who had the temerity to run for the highest office without knowing his place.

Or else the US can invite it's newest, bestest allies, North Korea and Russia, to send troop contingents to march alongside our own military personnel.
 
Clearly, you hate freedom.

Just kidding.

The only reason for a parade in DC later this year has nothing to do with honoring the troops, or honoring the nation, or honoring the centennial of WW1 victory.

It is 100% to boost the egg-shell fragile ego of the child-in-chief, whose family has never produced a single veteran of the US military, who treats the military like purchased possessions ("My generals...."), who wilts like a starry-eyed schoolgirl in the presence of bloody dictators but spews nothing short of hatred towards democratically elected leaders, who holds absolute disdain for free speech and an independent press, who regards allies as "foes" (his word) and adversaries as friends, and (some) Nazis as "very fine people." First POTUS ever to openly sympathize with Nazis. First POTUS ever to trash US intelligence (repeatedly) at the behest (or demand?) of a Russian tyrant. Speaks with the eloquence of a someone who learned English last month - in an after-hours Yonkers barroom. Believes Canada and Britain are national security threats to the USA, but is willing to hand deliver US diplomats to be interrogated by the GRU.

The only way to convince the Bombastic-One not to hold the ego-centric parade is to tease him with the idea of using the savings to spend on investigations to find the 44th president's "REAL" birth certificate. You know, that uppidity one ("boy"?) who had the temerity to run for the highest office without knowing his place.

Or else the US can invite it's newest, bestest allies, North Korea and Russia, to send troop contingents to march alongside our own military personnel.

Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.
 
And then the poor enlisted in the back row have to detour around the horse manure. Been there done that.
 
One wonders why Trump wants to spend money on a parade that glorifies him (like all the other dictators do) but be worried about money and say that "We will stop the war games which will save us a tremendous amount of money." after meeting one of said dictators.
 
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