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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to rename Fort Bragg appears to be his latest effort to roll back Biden-administration diversity policies for the military.. On Monday, a memo from Hegseth ...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest bases, Fort Liberty, which replaced the namesake of a Confederate general in 2023. But in a ...
Fort Bragg was one of nine bases that the Naming Commission suggested be renamed. The commission was added to a defence bill in 2020. Trump vetoed the bill, but the House and Senate overrode his veto.
Fort Bragg (formerly Fort Liberty from 2023 to 2025), is a U.S. Army military installation located in North Carolina. It ranks among the largest military bases in the world by population, with more than 52,000 military personnel. [ 2 ]
Fort Bragg, formerly Fort Liberty, renamed on June 2, 2023, for the American value of Liberty. (As the only recommendation of a non-person name, this choice attracted both criticism [ 63 ] and praise [ 64 ] in nearby Fayetteville, North Carolina .) [ 65 ] The name was reverted to Fort Bragg on February 10, 2025—for Roland L. Bragg instead of ...
In February 2025, the base was again renamed to Fort Bragg, this time for World War II paratrooper Roland L. Bragg. [15] Fort Gordon (1917), near Augusta, Georgia, named for Confederate General John Brown Gordon, was redesignated Fort Eisenhower on 27 October 2023 in honor of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the ninth renaming. [16] [17]
Here’s what we know about the soldier Fort Bragg is now being named after: ... Congress passed a law in 2020 that called for a commission to rename bases. It was partially inspired by the ...
After five years, Camp Bragg became a permanent Army post renamed Fort Bragg, and as Fort Liberty from 2023 to 2025. Original operations included photographing terrain for mapping, carrying the mail, and spotting for artillery and forest fires. Observation planes and observation balloons occupied Pope Field for the first eight years.