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\u00a0By Ashraf Khalil WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 As the nation’s capital cleans up from the culmination of World Pride this past weekend, focus now shifts to a very different massive event \u2014 Saturday’s military parade to honor the 250th birthday of the Army and the 79th birthday of President Donald Trump. \u201cWe\u2019re preparing for an enormous turnout,\u201d said Matt McCool of the Secret Service’s Washington Field office, who said more than 18 miles of \u201canti-scale fencing\u201d would be erected and \u201cmultiple drones\u201d would be in the air. The entire District of Columbia is normally a no-fly zone for drones. Army officials have estimated around 200,000 attendees for the evening military parade, and McCool said he was prepared for “hundreds of thousands” of people. \u201cWe have a ton of magnetometers,\u201d he said…. <\/p>\n

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\u00a0By Ashraf Khalil WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 As the nation’s capital cleans up from the culmination of World Pride this past weekend, focus now shifts to a very different massive event \u2014 Saturday’s military parade to honor the 250th birthday of the Army and the 79th birthday of President Donald Trump. \u201cWe\u2019re preparing for an enormous turnout,\u201d said Matt McCool of the Secret Service’s Washington Field office, who said more than 18 miles of \u201canti-scale fencing\u201d would be erected and \u201cmultiple drones\u201d would be in the air. The entire District of Columbia is normally a no-fly zone for drones. Army officials have estimated around 200,000 attendees for the evening military parade, and McCool said he was prepared for “hundreds of thousands” of people. \u201cWe have a ton of magnetometers,\u201d he said.... <\/p>\n

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