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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 ...
By Brad Brooks and Idrees Ali (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday renamed the Army base Fort Liberty back to its original name of Fort Bragg, according to a Department of ...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signs a memorandum reversing the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg while flying in a C-17 operated by the 300th Airlift Squadron en route to Stuttgart ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order 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 part of a national effort under the Biden administration to remove names that honored Confederate leaders.
As directed by law, and in accordance with the recommendations of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission, Fort McPherson, Georgia, closed and U.S. Army Forces Command and U.S. Army Reserve Command relocated to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. A new FORSCOM/U.S. Army Reserve Command Headquarters facility completed construction at Fort Bragg ...
Fort Liberty, formerly Fort Bragg, 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 Braxton ...
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]
Fort Bragg was established Sept. 4, 1918 to develop and strengthen the U.S. Army. The name was officially adopted as Fort Liberty on June 2, 2023.