Overview

• Saturday’s parade will feature about 6,600 Army troops alongside historic and modern military hardware including M1 Abrams tanks, Stryker vehicles and Vietnam-era Huey helicopters
• Officials project the celebration will cost roughly $45 million with up to $16 million more needed for post-parade street repairs in Washington, D.C.
• The event has been designated a National Special Security Event with plans for 18 miles of fencing and 175 metal detectors along the parade route
• Republican senators Rand Paul and John Kennedy have publicly questioned the parade’s expense and imagery, and GOP appropriators including Roger Wicker and Susan Collins have voiced cost concerns
• Army planners have grouped march units and platforms by historical conflict eras to showcase uniforms, aircraft and weaponry from each period