Officials preview security for Army's 250th anniversary parade

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(NewsNation) — U.S. Secret Service, FBI and different national information officials connected Monday day volition preview the protective measures for adjacent week's parade celebrating the Army's 250th anniversary.

The nationalist information briefing is scheduled for 2 p.m. EDT. NewsNation volition watercourse the lawsuit from this communicative erstwhile it begins.

The parade volition bring more than 150 armored vehicles, tanks and much than 6,000 soldiers to the nation's capital. The soldiers volition beryllium housed successful adjacent national buildings.

Army officials estimate astir 200,000 radical volition be the highly anticipated subject parade connected Saturday, which is besides Flag Day and President Donald Trump's 79th birthday.

With an influx of soldiers, weapons and imaginable protestors headed toward Washington, D.C., the parade volition beryllium classified arsenic a nationalist peculiar information event, according to plans obtained by the Associated Press.

Army's 250th day parade: When and where

When: The hourlong parade begins astatine 6:30 p.m. EDT

Where: Constitution Avenue NW betwixt 15th and 23rd streets

Prior to the parade, a wreath-laying ceremonial volition instrumentality spot astatine Arlington National Cemetery. The festival astatine the National Mall volition statesman astatine 11 a.m. section time.

“We person specified a affluent past and practice from the Revolutionary War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the planetary warfare connected terror,” said Col. Kamil Sztalkoper, manager of nationalist affairs for the III Armored Corps astatine Fort Cavazos successful Texas. “There are truthful galore stories of our soldiers, their show successful combat, their heroism that conscionable needs to beryllium told.”

Military parade falls connected Trump's birthday

In a connection Friday, Army spokesperson Steve Warren said the Army’s day solemnisation volition see “a spectacular fireworks display, a parade, and a daylong festival connected the National Mall.”

The extravagant parade — a caller summation to the festival — could outgo taxpayers up to $45 million, according to U.S. subject officials.

During his archetypal term, Trump projected a parade aft seeing 1 successful France connected Bastille Day successful 2017. Trump said that aft watching the 2-hour procession on the famed Champs-Élysées, helium wanted an adjacent grander 1 connected Pennsylvania Avenue.

That program was yet dumped owed to the immense outgo — with 1 estimation of $92 cardinal — and different logistical issues, including objections from metropolis officials who said tanks and different dense armored vehicles would teardrop up the roads.

'No Kings' protestation to coincide with parade

In protestation of Trump's pricey parade and politics, activistic groups nationwide are coming unneurotic to clasp a "No Kings" protestation during the Flag Day celebration.

"Instead of allowing this day parade to beryllium the halfway of gravity, we volition marque enactment everyplace other the communicative of America that day: radical coming unneurotic successful communities crossed the state to cull strongman authorities and corruption," the coalition's website reads.

Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert said her enactment — and galore others — are coming unneurotic “to cull corrupt, authoritarian authorities successful the United States."

“It’s Flag Day, truthful we’re going to beryllium talking astir what America should basal for, what our halfway values are, and conscionable accidental it precise clearly: Our state doesn’t person a king,” Gilbert said.

Demonstrations are scheduled successful cities crossed the U.S., including Phoenix, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia and Charlotte, North Carolina.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.