五角大樓稱閱兵式預算爲1200萬美元

The military parade proposed by President Donald Trump will cost $12 million, the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday.

Pentagon officials said the figure was a planning estimate, which could easily change once the final plan is approved.

The $12 million cost is nearly the same as the budget for the now-canceled military exercises with South p called off the annual exercise after meeting with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un, citing their cost and calling them "very provocative" to Pyongyang.

The parade will take place in Washington on Nov. 10. According to a Pantagon memo released in March, the parade will travel from the White House to the U.S. Capitol.

The memo said the focus of the parade will be on the “contributions of U.S. military veterans throughout history,” starting from the American Revolutionary War. The parade will include wheeled vehicles but no tanks. Some troops will wear period uniforms and the airplanes used at the end of the parade will also include “older aircraft, as available.”

The inspiration to hold a military parade came from the president’s trip to France last year when he and first lady Melania Trump watched Bastille Day events in Paris on July 14, as the guests of French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte.

Military parades in the United States are generally rare. In 1991, U.S. troops paraded through Washington to celebrate the ousting of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces from Kuwait in the Gulf War.五角大樓星期三確認，川普總統提議舉行的閱兵式的費用爲1200萬美元。

五角大樓官員說，這個數字是計劃估算，最後批准計劃的數字很可能有變化。

1200萬美元幾乎等於現已取消的美韓聯合軍演的費用。川普總統與朝鮮領導人金正恩會面後取消了美韓軍演，稱軍演費用龐大並對朝鮮有很挑釁性。

美國閱兵式定於11月10號在華盛頓舉行。根據五角大樓今年3月公佈的一份備忘錄，閱兵式路線將從白宮到美國國會山。

五角大樓的備忘錄說，閱兵式的重點是美國獨立戰爭以來美國軍人做出的貢獻。參加閱兵式的有輪式軍用車輛，但是將沒有坦克參加。參加閱兵式的一些軍隊將穿不同歷史時期的軍裝，閱兵式結束時飛過天空的飛機也將根據資源情況包括一些老式飛機。

美國總統川普和夫人梅拉妮亞去年7月14日作爲法國總統馬克龍和夫人布麗吉特的嘉賓觀看了巴士底日的活動。

川普總統隨後提出了舉行閱兵式的想法。美國很少舉行閱兵式。美國1991年在華盛頓舉行閱兵式，慶祝海灣戰爭中把薩達姆的伊拉克軍隊趕出了科威特。