6 hours agoU.S. Army under changes, Trump returns to Biden's decision
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)The seven US military bases that were renamed in 2023 due to their ties with the leaders of the Confederate will be returned to their original names, the US Army said. The decision was announced hours after US President Donald Trump announced the changes during a visit to the troops at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. [...]
The decision was announced hours after US President Donald Trump announced the changes during a visit to the troops at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
There it was announced that the base, which was renamed Fort Liberty by former President Joseph Biden's administration, would be returned to its old name, Fort Bragg, according to the AP.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was with Trump during the visit, signed an order in February to return the old names of the bases.
Could you believe they changed that name to the previous administration, and for a short time? We'll forget about all of this”, Trump said.
In March, Hegseth had already annulled the decision that renamed Fort Banning in Georgia at Fort Moore.
The military decided to return the original names of the seven bases: Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Picket and Fort Robert E. Lee in Virginia, Fort Gordon in Georgia, Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Pollach in Louisiana and Fort Ruecker in Alabama.
The change actually eliminates the names introduced in 2023, which honored figures such as former President Dwight Eisenhower, as well as African-American military and women.
There are no women on the new list. The military has not published an assessment of the cost of new changes in signs and signals on the basis, though these elements were renovated only two years ago./Periscopi/
