Secretary of defense Pete Hegseeth announced on Monday evening that Fort Liberty would again be called Fort Bragg – but with a turn.
In 2023, Fort Bragg – located outside of Fayetteville, North Carolina – was renamed Fort Liberty, so that it would no longer be named after a southern general.
The basis was originally mentioned Fort Bragg in 1918 after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg.
That Bragg was a slave holder – but he was also so incompetent that he helped the Confederation to lose the civil war to the American troops.
In a Pentagon release on Monday evening, Fort Bragg is now named after Roland L. Bragg.
A spokesperson for a Pentagon reduced Bragg as a hunter from the Second World War “who earned the Silver Star and Purple Heart for his exceptional courage during the Battle of the Bobbel.”
Hegseeth drew a memorandum in which the name change was set out while he flew to Stuttgart, Germany at night.
“That's right, Bragg is back,” said Hegseeth in a video released by the Pentagon.
The Pentagon released a photo of Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth who signed a memorandum that Fort Liberty renamed Fort Bragg – but Fort Bragg 2.0 will be named after another military member, not after the Southern General
The Pentagon released an image of the memorandum that changed the name of Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg. President Donald Trump had promised to change the name back to Fort Bragg during a campaign stop in October to Fayetteville, North Carolina
In the video Hegseeth does not mention that the bragg where the basis will be named has changed.
Hegseeth makes a campaign blade from President Donald Trump.
During a trip to Fayetteville, North Carolina, in October, Trump promised to restore Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg.
“So, this is what we do,” said Trump. “We are chosen,” and then, “I do it.”
In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests that broke out, the army began to make movements to rid bases of names of confederated officers, who had tried to keep slavery during the civil war.
During Trump's re -election against the then Vice President Joe Biden, Groef Trump his feet and opposed these calls to change.
Trump made the issue about maintaining American culture rather than enforcing offensive conditions with regard to the racist past of the country.
Weeks after Floyd's death, Trump announced that he will “not even consider” renaming military bases named after members of the Confederation.
Fort Bragg was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 after Americans insisted to remove names from military bases of members of the Confederation, who fought to preserve Slavey in the United States during the Civil War
Historians said that Confederate General Braxton Bragg did just as much as every confederated general to lose the civil war. Fort Bragg was the target for a rename after the death of May 2020 by George Floyd who encouraged the Black Lives Matter protests
“These monumental and very powerful bases have become part of a large American heritage and a history of winning, victory and freedom,” Trump tweeted. “The United States of America trained our heroes and focused on these holy grounds and won two world wars,” the president continued.
“That is why my administration will not even take into account the rename of these beautiful and legendary military installations,” Trump said in June 2020.
Trump went so far that he was still veto for the massive military expenditure law in December 2020 – after he had lost the elections to Biden – because it contained the provision to rename the bases.
Trump did not buy an argument from the former CIA director, General David Petraeus, that American bases should not be named after military members who fought against the US – the basic definition of someone involved in the Confederation.
But in a sense, the original Bragg did the United States a favor.
Historians said that Bragg did just as much as every confederated general to lose war “because of his series of military defeats.
