Fort Benning, Georgia, is back — but not in honor of a Confederate general
A storied Army post originally named after Confederate Gen. Henry L. Benning, then renamed Fort Moore as part of the Biden administration’s purge of military base names that honored rebel leaders, will now revert to its original moniker.
In 2022, a federal commission estimated that changing the names of nine military installations would cost taxpayers $21 ...
"The NDAA required renaming so not to honor anyone who had served in the Confederate States of America voluntarily," said Dru Brenner-Beck, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and former professor ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently renamed Fort Liberty, North Carolina, choosing the name Fort Bragg. Not that Bragg, ...
The military base had been renamed Fort Liberty as part of an effort to rechristen bases named for Confederate officers.
While confederate monuments have been largely removed in Virginia, their futures remain far more uncertain across state lines in the Tar Heel state ...
The base’s name was changed to Fort Moore in 2023 as part of a bipartisan effort to eliminate military honors bestowed on ...
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