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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth restored the names of Fort Benning and Fort Bragg, which were originally named for Confederate ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been criticized for attempting to rename military bases to honor Confederate officers, ...
GOP Rep. Don Bacon, who helped lead the effort to change military base names, voted for a draft law defunding efforts to reverse the changes.
Some lawmakers from both parties feel defense chief slapped them in the face by tossing out the work of a renaming commission created by Congress.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, left, and Maj. Gen. Pat Work salute paratroopers as they march by during the 82nd Airborne Division review on Thursday, May 22, 2025, on Fort Bragg.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base in North Carolina back to Fort Bragg and said Tuesday that ...
On Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum ordering Liberty be renamed Fort Roland L. Bragg after a paratrooper who received a Silver Star and Purple Heart during ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed an order Monday restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base back to Fort Bragg. The North Carolina base was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 as ...
The name was changed from Fort Bragg in 2023, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed an order Monday, Feb. 10, 2024, changing it back, in honor of World War II veteran Roland L. Bragg of Maine.