The U.S. Army is stripping the names of Confederate generals from bases like Fort Pickett in Virginia, named after George Pickett, who led the rebels' final charge at the Battle of Gettysburg and was later accused of war crimes. The names of nine Ar
Pressed on Friday whether the issue of base names tied to Confederate leaders tied to slavery could hurt military recruiting, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the names should not change because “the bases are not known for the generals they are named ...
"I wonder myself what took so long," said retired Lt. Gen. Tom Bostick, a member of The Naming Commission, charged with renaming Army bases named in honor of Confederate generals. "What was galling is that we would still in this day and age have names of bases that represented traitors...
A blue-ribbon commission has recommended new names for nine bases named after Confederate leaders with Fort Bragg to be renamed Fort Liberty.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Congressionally mandated commission announced on Tuesday its recommendations for changes to the names of nine U.S. Army bases that currently honor the Confederacy and Confederate leaders. The recommended changes, if implemented, would name bases in ho...
Two days after the Army opened the door to potentially changing the names of installations named after Confederate generals, President Donald Trump slammed it…
These names are part of my history. So is their conflicted origin. My ancestors were not enslaved by the Confederacy, but they did fight it. One was wounded and the other taken as a POW by Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. Should I resent my great-great-grandfathers’ enemies or ap...
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The Army has finished renaming nine installations thatpreviously honored confederate generalswith the redesignation Friday of Fort Gordon in Georgia to Fort Eisenhower. The Defense Department has until the end of the year to complete the recommendations of the congressionally mandated Naming Commission. ...
Mr. Trump took aim at the amendment to the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) offered by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, which would require the Pentagon to change the names of 10 Army bases named for Confederate generals. Warren's measure also extends ...