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Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 2:22 pm
by jemhouston
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/penta ... ngNewsSerp
Pentagon to restore Fort Liberty's name to Fort Bragg
Story by Eleanor Watson • 11h • 3 min read
The Pentagon is changing the name of the military base Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, reversing a decision made by a congressionally mandated commission to rename bases that honor Confederate generals.
The Army base will be renamed Fort Bragg, but it will honor a different Bragg than its original namesake, Gen. Braxton Bragg, who fought for the Confederacy. Instead, it will honor Private First Class Roland L. Bragg, who was awarded a Silver Star for actions during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, according to a memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
"This decision reflects the installation's proud history of honoring selfless service and sacrifice in defense of the nation," Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot said in a statement.
NBC News was first to report the Defense Department was considering this option.
Roland L. Bragg was one of the names previously considered for the base's name change, but ultimately, officials decided to name it Fort Liberty, instead of naming the base after any single person.
On the campaign trail, President Trump criticized the renaming. At an October rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina — near where the military installation is located — Mr. Trump said, "We did win two world wars from Fort Bragg, right?" and promised, "We're gonna get it back. We're gonna bring our country back."
Before he became defense secretary, Pete Hegseth said the base should never have been renamed. While promoting his book "War on Warriors," Hegseth said, "We should change it back, because legacy matters. My uncle served at Bragg. I served at Bragg. It breaks a generational link."
When he entered the Pentagon for the first time, he referred to Fort Liberty and Fort Moore by their former names, Fort Bragg and Fort Benning.
Fort Bragg and Fort Benning were two of nine bases that the Naming Commission, a commission mandated by Congress to rename bases honoring Confederates, for which new names were suggested.
Back-to-back annual defense authorization bills first banned the military service branches from naming installations after Confederates and then created the Naming Commission. In 2020, Mr. Trump vetoed the defense bill, in part because of the base-renaming provision, but the House and Senate overrode his veto. The service branches, like the Army, still have the authority to rename bases as long as they're not named for Confederates.
The base is home to the Army's Special Operations and Airborne forces, including the 82nd Airborne Division, which is often considered the tip of the spear by the U.S. military because it can rapidly deploy within 18 hours of notification.
The Naming Commission estimated that changing the name of Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty would initially cost over $6 million, according to the commission's report. It's not clear how much it will cost to change the name back to Fort Bragg.
Hegseth's memo directs the Army to inform the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment of the timeline and necessary resources for the implementation of the change.
Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:32 pm
by David Newton
That's the way to do it!
Now all they have to do is find distinguished enough people to rename Fort Benning, Fort Gordon, Fort A. P. Hill (difficult that one), Fort Hood, Fort Lee, Fort Pickett, Fort Polk and Fort Rucker after who aren't confederates. Fort A. P. Hill will likely be almost impossible to deal with and I suspect that Fort Pickett could well be tricky. However many of the others should be pretty easy to find names to use to put a thumb in the eye of the Dems.
I don't necessarily agree with naming them after confeds in the first place. However renaming them in the way that it was done was simply woke virtue signalling and destruction of history for illegitimate reasons.
Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:34 pm
by kdahm
David Newton wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:32 pm
I don't necessarily agree with naming them after confeds in the first place. However renaming them in the way that it was done was simply woke virtue signalling and destruction of history for illegitimate reasons.
While they were doing that original renaming, they should have renamed the Pentagon into Fort Benedict Arnold.
Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:44 pm
by Pdf27
David Newton wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:32 pm Fort A. P. Hill will likely be almost impossible to deal with
Rename it Fort
Isaac Hill, or just Fort Hill if you want to let people pretend you didn't change the name as with Bragg?
He's more of a literary figure than a military one, but at least he fought for the US Army rather than committing treason against the US.
Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:41 pm
by jemhouston
If you can't find a suitable replacement name, how about Fort Roosevelts, for one of the only two Father / Son duo to be awarded the Medal of Honor?
Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:49 am
by Rocket J Squrriel
When they did the original change I thought it should've been Fort Ridgway or Fort Gavin.
Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:52 am
by jemhouston
Rocket J Squrriel wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:49 am
When they did the original change, I thought it should've been Fort Ridgway or Fort Gavin.
Please say no to Fort Gavin.
Is Sparky still around?
Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:50 am
by Nathan45
We got nothing named after Ranald Mackenzie...
Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:28 am
by Rocket J Squrriel
jemhouston wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:52 am
Rocket J Squrriel wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:49 am
When they did the original change, I thought it should've been Fort Ridgway or Fort Gavin.
Please say no to Fort Gavin.
Is Sparky still around?
His facebook site is updated every so often.
https://www.facebook.com/combatreform.org
Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:28 am
by jemhouston
Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:43 am
by Pdf27
That was somehow just as barking mad as I expected!
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Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:54 am
by Craiglxviii
Pdf27 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:43 am
That was somehow just as barking mad as I expected!
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+1 for “Fecesbook” though
Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:35 pm
by Jotun
I know it had to do with placating the former Confederates after the Civil War, but naming major military installations after a bunch of traitorous losers, especially one of such arguably dubious achievements as Braxton Bragg...I don't know.
Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:54 pm
by Belushi TD
Pdf27 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:43 am
That was somehow just as barking mad as I expected!
Yes, it is! I have to confess I actually found HPCA through the combat r e f o r m site back in the day. I had come across it.... somehow, I don't remember, and thought it was extremely poorly written fiction. So I googled Naval Historic Fiction (or something similar) and came across France Fights On, Letterstime, and one of the fictions by one of our passed members that dealt with predreadnoughts fighting it out with lots of WAANGS and so forth.
The story on HPCA was sufficiently interesting that I explored the rest of the site. 22 ish years later, here we are.
Belushi TD
EDIT - AT Mahan, I think, was the author of the predreadnought WHANGfest. EDIT
Re: Fort Bragg is back
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 2:30 pm
by jemhouston
Happy everyone is here.