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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.
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.
On 10 February 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum directing the Army to rename Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, but this time in honor of Private First Class Roland L. Bragg, a person other than the original namesake. Bragg was stationed at Fort Bragg during World War II and later fought with distinction in the European ...
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, 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 ...
The renaming of Fort Bragg honors all U.S. soldiers who have trained to fight and win U.S. wars, Hegseth wrote in his memo, "and is in keeping with the installation's esteemed and storied history."
Roland Leon Bragg (June 11, 1923 – January 12, 1999) was a United States Army paratrooper during World War II. Bragg was awarded the Silver Star, the United States Army's third-highest military decoration for valor in combat, for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action." Since 2025, he has been the namesake of Fort Bragg.