For more than a century, the Army post bore the name of Henry Benning, a Confederate brigadier general and ardent advocate of ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base in North ...

Danny Powell hadn’t heard of the defense secretary’s decision to change the name of North Carolina’s largest military base back to Fort Bragg.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth indicated that he would revert the name of military bases back to their previous names that ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has hinted he would like to change the name of Fort Moore back to Fort Benning.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had referred to Fort Benning and Fort Bragg by their original, Confederate-inspired names.

The North Carolina base was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023. Its original namesake, Gen. Braxton Bragg, was a Confederate general from Warrenton, North Carolina, who was known for owning slaves and ...

Fort Bragg is one of nine major Army bases that initially bore the names of Confederate leaders. Their names were changed in ...

He said he deliberately referred to Bragg and Fort Benning — the Army base in Columbus, Georgia, which is now ... got around a law prohibiting the military from naming a base after a Confederate ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth indicated that he would revert the name of military ... addition to Fort Bragg, the Pentagon changed the names of Fort Benning and Fort Gordon in Georgia to Fort ...

It’s Fort Bragg.” “There are other bases that have been renamed that erodes that very same legacy,” he said. “There’s a reason I said Bragg and Benning when I walked into the Pentagon ...