I didn’t realize this was an old thread so when I read “a major rebuke to President Donald Trump who has urged Republican opposition and threatened to veto the legislation.” in the OP, my initial thought was ‘wow, he really does think he’s still president’.
Churchill decided similarly when presented with a plan to assassinate Hitler by sniper at Berchtesgaden.
Fort Moore
You suspect correctly. More or less Gen. Jubilation T Cornpone.
Or Fort Hitler, for his aid in making sure that Germany’s heavy armor was miles inland waiting to be deployed en masse instead of shooting down at the beaches of Normandy.
Name a fort after a sailor? Never!
No left handed gay person on the list? I knew we would get a woman and a black person.
BTW New names are a great idea
It’s kind of to be expected that military bases, of any country, will be rah-rah-rah. The anomaly was in having, for many years, military bases named after enemies of our country.
They have until the end of the year to complete the transition to the new names. I’m especially liking the new name of Fort A. P. Hill.
If only Columbus could be removed from everything. He had little to do with continental North America anyway. A person less deserving of adulation would be hard to find, at least before trump.
Modding: This would be better as its own thread then in this one.
Yeah, it was a bit ot. Delete please.
I’m a little disappointed in the Naming Commission’s choice for Fort Bragg; “Fort Liberty” is kinda meh, like they just couldn’t think of another worthy soldier to honor.
(For that matter, Braxton Bragg was an odd choice to begin with. The other Confederate-named forts were at least named after competent traitors.)
Yeah, Fort Liberty is lame. Should have named it Fort Sherman or Fort Chamberlain or Fort Reynolds or…
There might have been less opposition for the renaming if they would have just named them for worthy heroic Southerners from the last 100 years. There must be a few.
Or even Benavidez.
People are melting down online about the renamings. I get it. I was at both Bragg and Benning (at Benning for only 3 weeks, but that was enough). There’s a certain prestige being at those locations. Benning has Infantry and Airborne training as well as Ranger school and 75th Ranger Regiment. Bragg has 82nd Airborne, XVIII Airborne Corps., Special Forces, and Special Operations Command. So there’s a lot of people out there saying “It will always be Bragg to me.” My only response is that the bases shouldn’t have been named after traitors to begin with.
Fort Gingrich? Fort Thurmond? Fort Wallace?
Fort Courage?
Fort Stevie Ray Vaughan.