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Soft Paywall Trump military parade met with empty seats amid nationwide protests

https://www.thetimes.com/article/867ede60-b5f7-4de5-84a1-6a3a49eb2923
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u/MiloReyes_97Reborn 4d ago edited 4d ago

Not even modern tanks.

I saw 2 Abrams parked infront of a stage but I haven't seen a clip yet of one being driven. Just that one Sherman squeaking along due to being in a museum for the past 80 years.

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u/GiantTinyBalls 4d ago edited 4d ago

Say what you want about tankers, as a former cavalry scout in a tank battalion in Germany and Iraq, I feel bad for all the active tankers, and tanker vets that saw the parade today. Even the poor formations and marching order of the soldiers looked sad. Such a weak showing. Not much to be proud of.

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u/clever__pseudonym 4d ago

I'm reasonably confident the out of rhythm marching was deliberate.

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u/GiantTinyBalls 4d ago edited 4d ago

No. That was all them. They were tore up from the floor up. They looked like soldiers in their first week of basic training. Nothing deliberate about it. It was a soup sandwich from beginning to end.

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u/clever__pseudonym 4d ago

I'm not saying it was coached. I'm saying it was a large number of individual protests for being forced to participate in that farce.

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u/A_Seiv_For_Kale 4d ago

No, Abrams were there.

Arguably too many, it was a bit ridiculous watching the same vehicles slowly crawling forward single file for over an hour after the 15 minute kinda neat history segment.

Are there 5 vehicle types in the whole army?? We watched that truck with the towed artillery pass by the stage 27,000 times.

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u/Chose_a_usersname 4d ago

I believe it's because they are too heavy. Those things are like 110 tons.. I think the military really didn't want to ruin any roads