1. Having marched in MANY parades over the years - at VMI, in the Marine Corps, in the Army Guard - I know the indispensable need for a BEAT to march to. There should have been a Drum Corps near the reviewing stand keeping a steady beat for the soldiers to march to. WAY too many soldiers out of step.
2. The vehicles should have passed-in-review in some kind of formation. Random tanks and Personnel Carriers driving by, all alone, with long breaks between vehicles, just wasted time and looked unorganized.
3. Why why why WHY!!! do they always have some guy narrating every group that's passing by? Even when it's a BAND PLAYING MUSIC!!! Shut the hell up so we can HEAR THE BAND!!! It also makes it even MORE difficult for soldiers to stay in step.
4. What was with some of that music? All of the GREAT military marching music that has been composed for the U.S. military over the years, and we get THAT screechy modern garbage.
5. The cost of the parade to the taxpayers was nowhere NEAR the $45 million that's being reported. Something like $16 million of that was anticipated to be needed to repair the streets after the parade. None of that was needed. And the Army's 250th Birthday celebrations are being SPONSORED by donors like USAA and Lockheed-Martin. So some of the cost was funded by donated dollars. Relax, already.
6. I hope the President asks the Marine Corps to do a parade in November. THEN you'd really see something sharp.
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