The base, known as Fort Liberty since 2023, originally was named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg. The Army says it now ...
After Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Monday that he is changing the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, the reception from those ABC11 spoke with was mostly, though not all, ...
The base was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 to disassociate from Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg. It’s now named after Roland L.
A U.S. Army base originally named after a Confederate general, then renamed Fort Liberty, will revert to the name Fort Bragg.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday renamed the Army base Fort Liberty back to its original name of Fort Bragg, ...
THE ARMY POST WAS ORIGINALLY NAMED AFTER CONFEDERATE GENERAL BRAXTON BRAGG. IN 2021, CONGRESS ESTABLISHED A COMMISSION TASKED WITH RENAMING DOD PROPERTIES THAT WERE NAMED AFTER CONFEDERATE LEADERS.
In 2022, the commission recommended changing the names of nine Army installations, including Fort Bragg, which was named after General Braxton Bragg in 1918, a native North Carolinian and ...
an Army Inspector General investigation reexamined the case of a then-Fort Bragg soldier found dead in his barracks in 2020. The body of Pvt. 2 Caleb Smither, 19, was found in his room at the post ...