Planning for US military parade now underway

February 07, 2018 21:16

Initial planning for the military parade requested by US President Donald Trump is now underway, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford has confirmed.

It is expected that the Army Military District of Washington, which oversees some military activities in the city, will be designated to coordinate parade planning, according to a senior defense official.

One option being considered is to hold the parade in November in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the ending of World War I on November 11, 1918, the official said.

Military planners will now look not only at dates and locations for the parade, but also costs, logistics and whether it is feasible to hold a parade displaying large weaponry such as tanks on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Pentagon spokesman Charlie Summers said that Trump asked for the military parade, adding that the planning process was in its "infancy."

According to The Washington Post, which first reported that Trump asked top brass at the Pentagon for a military parade, the President was inspired by France's Bastille Day celebration.

Trump was French President Emmanuel Macron's guest on Bastille Day last year, and later called the French military parade he witnessed "one of the greatest parades" he had ever seen.

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