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I thought that was incredibly sloppy formation. The soldiers in the fighting vehicles waving and smiling, they should have been throwing candy.
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Having a C-47 drop candy over the "perade" would have been cool.
ReplyDeleteDilligaff is indeed the case and it shows. I've seen solders drill
ReplyDeleteand if sarge says look sharp, they do. So the OOD was just get
there. Prepare for forced march.
For the rethug, I kill the in the name of religion is his excuse.
And according to the 12 commandments he should die for doing
that. More people have died in the name of some and varied gods
over the centuries.
The candy idea would have certainly brightened the day.
Eck!
Roger the Fortunate Son thing. In China -
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“The parade reflects [Trump’s] urgency to proclaim that ‘America is great again’ … Yet, no matter how it’s staged, it only reinforces the sense that the halo of the United States is fading, and its deep-rooted institutional problems remain unresolved,” state-run Beijing Daily said in a commentary.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3314508/setting-sun-chinese-media-contrasts-us-pageantry-and-violence-trumps-parade-day?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article
There was no synchronized marching which could be that this was their way of protesting. Soldiers are taught from day one to march in formation. I know. My dad was a Drill Sgt. Personally I believe he would have been very proud of those men for having the guts to "walk" like they did as if they were walking in a park to a picnic. Especially in front of a draft dodger that fell asleep during his birthday parade. The sad thing is that the Armed Forces will not see a single penny of the $45mil that they will be paying out for this fiasco. It will all go from our bank accounts into TЯ☭mp's pocket.
ReplyDeleteI thought they looked more like they were walking to a forced proctology exam.
DeleteI double took to see the Sherman tank, all gussied up and sharp, clanking along.....I'm sure the armor guys were snickering. Hell, why stop there? Fort Knox (home of Armor) near my childhood home of Louisville, KY has a wonderful tank museum which includes a WWI monster parallelogram shaped tank. I think it still runs. Years ago I saw it opened up with a mechanic working on it. It's that tall because of its monster long stroke engine with a separate water jacket for each cylinder. Like this:
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Video of the Shermans from Colbert...
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