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

Litchfield resident Gaylen Heacock Jr. was in a dark place. He had sunken into a depression fueled by recurring nightmares, anxiety and feelings of betrayal. Most mornings, he ...

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

On his first day in the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth referred to Georgia's Fort Moore by its original name, Fort ...

Georgia U.S. Army post Fort Moore has had its current name for less than two years. Before that, it held the name 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 ...

He said he deliberately referred to Bragg and Fort Benning — the Army base in Columbus, Georgia, which is now called Fort Moore — as he entered the Pentagon on his first day. “There are ...

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

Hegseth referred to Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, a Georgia base renamed Fort Moore, pointedly using their original Confederate namesakes. In a podcast interview last year, Hegseth said ...