Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed an order reinstating the Bragg name, only this time it will honor Army Pfc. Roland L.

Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth renamed the Georgia base as Fort Benning. Other bases have been renamed using a name similar to ...

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

For more than a century, Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the name of the Army base in Georgia two years ago, but now the Trump ...

In 2022, a federal commission estimated that changing the names of nine military installations would cost taxpayers $21 million.

The base’s name was changed to Fort Moore in 2023 as part of a bipartisan effort to eliminate military honors bestowed on Confederate officers. By Helene Cooper Reporting from Washington Defense ...

Bragg is back.” It took an act of Congress — overriding Trump’s 2020 veto — to remove Confederate names from military installations, including nine Army facilities. Although several ...

By Chris Cameron Reporting from Fort Bragg, N.C. The sprawling Army base in North Carolina had long been named for Braxton Bragg, an incompetent Confederate general who owned enslaved people.

Ty Seidule, a retired Army brigadier general and co-chairman of the commission that swapped out names of Confederate soldiers who waged war against the United States for American heroes ...

military post to revert to its old name after it was re-designated as Fort Moore during the Biden administration. However, the base won't honor Confederate Gen. Henry L. Benning, its original ...

The Army will return the famed Georgia base to Fort Benning, the name originally chosen in honor of Confederate Henry Benning. However, to keep the name and adhere to a law passed by Congress to ...

The base was originally named after Confederate General Henry L. Benning in October 1918, but it was renamed Fort Moore in May 2023 to honor Army Lieutenant General Hal Moore and his wife ...