Trump Reportedly Wants Pentagon To Stage Military Parade Down Pennsylvania Ave.

The bolts weren't removed during the 2009 inauguration parade because G.W. Bush was still President until 12 pm.

Below are U.S. Air Force airmen during the G.W. Bush 2005 inauguration parade. Notice the bolts are where they are suppose to be on their M-1 Garands.

Holt crap, their bayonets are fixed !!!






President Eisenhower's 1957 inauguration parade.

 

Maybe Trump could take a page from the democrat FDR's military parade.

 

Still no link to state that Obama ordered it...

 

Those of us with a reasonable mind know that the Secret Service would NEVER base its security policies and measures on the race of the president and the negative (and hateful) comments on Internet discussion forums.

 

The President who had the greatest number of threats made against his life was LBJ.

The Secret Service went overboard big time with Obama.

The Obama's should have done what most Americans do on Christmas, celebrate Christmas at home with family members not ****ing up lives of ordinary citizens in Hawaii every year.

President Obama and his family has the blood on their hands of 12 U.S. Marines.

Report: Marines Link Obama Vacation to Deadly Helo Crash
https://www.military.com/daily-news...-contributed-to-deadly-marine-helo-crash.html

 

All we have to do, is compare G.W. Bush's military and President Trump's military to Obama's military.

 

I don't know of any Presidents that the same thing couldn't be said. Accidental death or sent into combat, dead is dead.

 

Truth.

 

When you make a peep about Trump taking 10 times as much vacation, we'll stop laughing at your obvious partisan hypocrisy.

That's a new disgusting low, even for you. If you were capable of feeling shame, you'd feel shame over it. I mean, because maintenance was deferred for a couple hours, Obama caused the crash weeks later? Again, even for you, that's inexcusably vile. Try standing on your own feet, instead of constantly propping yourself up with the corpses of our dead.

If the story comes from you and it's about Obama and the military, we just assume it's entirely fake, because that's what experience shows.

 

Trump should do this for the triggering value alone.

 

LBJ ‘most-threatened president in American history


Hey, hey LBJ, how many death threats did you get today?

Well, that’s not precisely the slogan anti-war protesters chanted in the 1960s, but author Mel Ayton says the answer to the question is quite possibly more than any president in modern American history.

“Generally speaking, the level of threats each post-war president has faced has remained stable,” Ayton told The Daily Caller in an interview about his new book, “Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts — From FDR to Obama.”

“However, from my research, I would hazard a guess that the most -threatened president in American history has to be Lyndon Johnson, mainly because of the Vietnam War,” he continued. “He is possibly the only president who confined his public speaking events to ‘safe’ venues like military bases. The apex of demonstrations against the war during his presidency occurred in 1968 and the Secret Service persuaded Johnson that the level of hatred directed towards him would make it more likely than not fanatical anti-war militant groups or individuals would make an attempt on his life.”

Of course, unlike his predecessor John F. Kennedy, none of the plots against Johnson were successful...-> http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/21/author-lbj-most-threatened-president-in-american-history/

 

Well, he is the Commander-in-Chief, right?

 

You left out JFK.

 

From a Vietnam Veteran to you Sir- well said!

 

The comander in chief who pissed on the Purple Heart and pissed on the service of a downed Navy flier. Trump gave us military no honor thus far so why should we honor him.

 

Thank you and perhaps a little late, thanks for your service.

 

Thank you for your service.

It is my experience that Veterans want career opportunities, benefits, travel, etc.. Most people want those same things.

 

It's been so long I have forgotten how big those Nike's were.

There was a Nike base just 1 1/2 miles from my home during the 60's.

I remember during the Cuban missile crises when an entire battery of 24 Nike's came popping out of their underground missile silos pointing towards the sky. It was fun times being an young kid during the Cold War.

Nike battery LA-70 was 1 1/2 miles from my home in Manhattan Beach.

Nike Sites of the Los Angeles Defense Area
The Ring of Supersonic Steel



http://www.ftmac.org/lanike3.htm

 

That was my job in the AF, fighting the cold war in SAC underground headquarters but I came in after the Cuban Missile Crisis during Vietnam.

 

The Blue Angels, etc. are written off as PR/outreach.

They aren't training exercises. It's a stable team doing shows.

btw, a Hornet (which is about what the Blue Angels fly, I think) costs $10,000/hour to operate. And, that includes travel time and the practice they do at the event site, obviously.

At any rate, if you see a bunch of fighters playing around overhead, you can be pretty sure your ticket isn't the reason.

 

I understand that the soldiers hate those parades due to the hours and days of practice and marching in a parade. If he wants to honor the military (hardly), civilians should march and our troops should watch and enjoy. Trump can't possibly know this unless
his selfishness has once again gotten in the way of his brains. He could take the money and give them raises. A parade?? No.

 

I don't want a commie-lite parade.

 

I was just a kid during the 50's and early 60's. I got my orders to report on the yellow footprints at MCRDSD in December of 68.

The closest SAC base from where I lived was March AFB in Riverside.

During the 70's and 80's would pull off the side of the road to watch an entire B-52 squadron take off and fly towards the USSR armed with nukes.
It was an "E" ticket to watch 24 or so B-52's taking to the air.


This is why there is no Cold War medal

The Cold War was a prolonged state of tension between the U.S. and the USSR, lasting from the end of World War II until December 26, 1991, the day the Soviet Union fell. The two superpowers were rivals on all fronts: political, economic, military, athletics, and, of course, in myriad Hollywood storylines. But the world’s most iconic ideological struggle doesn’t have a medal to call its own.


SF-88 Nike Missiles with Fort Cronkhite visible, circa 1959. (U.S. Air Force photo)

American veterans of this era were prepared for a potentially catastrophic war at a moment’s notice. They patrolled the Berlin Wall, the Korean DMZ, the jungles of Vietnam, and flew long patrol missions around the Arctic Circle to deter Russian aggression. Despite no direct war between the U.S. and Russia, proxy wars in Korea and Vietnam served as battlefronts between capitalism and communism while Eastern Bloc and American troops did find themselves shooting at each other on occasion. This worldwide struggle went on every day for 46 years.

Traditionally, service medals are awarded for prolonged campaigns or for those who fulfilled specific service requirements. Two such current medals are the National Defense and Global War On Terror Service Medals. Those involved in the current campaign against ISIS were just authorized the Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal for the two-year-old conflict in Iraq and Syria. Yet, When the Iron Curtain fell in 1991, American military veterans serving during this period received no authorized service medal, such as a Cold War Victory Medal or Cold War Service Medal. They are not authorized to wear the National Defense Service Medal, despite the high military tension during the time period.

There have been bills introduced in several separated Congresses to authorize a medal (the most recent being 2015 – that bill has been assigned to a committee) but none of them have made it very far. The reasons vary. The Cold War was not an actual “war” but a state of political conflict, according to a 2011 letter addressed to the Senate Armed Service Committee, written by then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs Elizabeth King. The letter also states that establishment of a Cold War Service Medal would duplicate recognition of service medals already authorized during the era.

Cost was also a factor according to King’s letter. The average cost of producing, administering, and mailing a Cold War Medal would be $30 per medal. The price would exceed $440 million for 35 million eligible personnel or their next of kin.

So instead of a medal, Cold War-era veterans can apply for a Cold War certificate. The certificate is available by request for all members of the armed forces and qualified federal government civilian personnel who honorably served the United States anytime during the Cold War, which is defined as September 2, 1945 to December 26, 1991. For those who served during gaps of “peace” and never in a declared combat zone or small-scale operation, this certificate is intended to recognize their service in the era...-> http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/this-is-why-there-is-no-cold-war-medal

 

Didn't know about the Cold War Certificate.

There were only two places in the world I could go during Vietnam and that was Offutt in Nebraska or March in Riverside.

Of course I didn't know anything about either but didn't want to go to Nebraska so that is where I got stationed. Ended up loving it there and used to hang glide over in the Bluffs across the river around Council Bluffs.

 

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