What you can expect at the Army Parade on the Trump birthday

Washington (AP) – The army began to load some of the tanks on Wednesday, which will reach the country of the country in the country in the next month during the 250th anniversary celebration of the service, in which hundreds of military vehicles and aircraft and thousands of soldiers can be seen.

The event has grown extensively since the army planners worked at a festival two years ago to mark the day and now added a military parade – Which president Donald Trump had tried to do unsuccessfully During his first term.

The anniversary celebration of the army is for June 14, which is also Trump's birthday.

It includes concerts, fireworks, NFL players, fitness competitions and exhibitions throughout the National Mall for day celebrations. The army expects up to 200,000 people to participate and that the celebration cost the estimate of 25 to 45 million US dollars.

Here you will find what you can expect during the all -day festival and the parade at 6 p.m.

The tanks and armored vehicles

On Wednesday, the army put 28 M1 Abram's main slaughter tanks in Fort Cavazos in Texas on rail cars. The tanks weigh more than 60 tons per piece and last about nine or ten days to take the train to Maryland, where they are invited to trucks to drive to Washington, DC, and to be unloaded in a staging area near the Lincoln memorial.

On the day of the parade, these tanks and 28 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, 28 Raded Stryker Combat Vehicles, four persecuted M-109 Paladin, self-driving Haubierheuchter and other towing artillery at the start of the parade route directly on the National Mall. You drive towards the White House and drive over a thick metal coating to protect the streets at some parade points where the vehicles make a sharp curve.

The army said that it is also planning some additional asphalt work and put new rubber pads on the metal tracks of the tanks to try to minimize the street damage.

The influx of soldiers

More than 6,700 soldiers travel from bases across the country to take part in the parade and the festival and to be housed in two nearby federal buildings on June 11th to 15th, to sleep on children's beds and eat military meals, or mres, for breakfast and lunch.

You will get a hot meal for dinner and 69 US dollars per diem to buy additional meals as you want, said the army spokesman, Steve Warren.

They will form units that represent each of the main conflicts of the nation, starting with the War of Independence. For each conflict, 60 soldiers carry newspaper uniforms that are delivered by an event company that represents this war and follow 400 soldiers from the same basis in today's uniforms.

Not all participating soldiers will be in the parade or even on site. For example, Col. Anne McClain, an Astronaut of the army who currently works in the international space station, will take part.

At the end of the parade, the army team of the army will jump over the White House and land near Trump to present him with a folded flag, and 250 new recruits or reenlisting service members are sworn in by Trump into the army.

The plane and helicopter that hummed over us

More than 50 helicopters and planes that represent different wars will fly across the city – if they come together with the units on site when they say goodbye to the president.

If, for example, units marching on Trump in World War II, a P-51 Mustang Fighter Aircraft and a B-25-bomber aircraft B-25 are expected to fly over us.

The helicopters from Army H-1 Huey, AH-1 Cobra, AH-64 Apache and CH-47 will appear in the sky as units that represent more recent conflicts.

The helicopters fly at a time when sharing DCS airspace afterwards is still a sensitive problem A January collision 67 killed between a Black Hawk helicopter of the army and an American Airlines.

Warren said that the army had worked closely with the Federal Aviation Administration on routes, and the helicopters will take off from the Andrews Air Force Base to fly in the direction of the Capitol.

It is likely that DCS airspace can be temporarily closed for air traffic when the Sky parade occurs, the army said.