With ‘Fort Bragg’ making a return, is ‘Fort Gordon’ next?
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed an order restoring the name of a famed Army post in North Carolina back to Fort Bragg.
The new twist is that the Bragg it honors isn’t the Confederate general it originally bore the name of.
Hegseth said there will be more name changes coming, which begs the question: Will Fort Eisenhower be one of them?
The local Army post used to be called Fort Gordon, named for John Brown Gordon, a Confederate general and former Georgia governor.
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But the military the local post in 2023 became Fort Eisenhower, bearing the name of the former president.
Speaking to reporters, Hegseth hinted at a wholesale reversal of the broader Biden istration effort to remove names that honored Confederate leaders.
It sets up a potentially costly, complicated and delicate process that could run afoul of the law.
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“As the president has said, and I’ve said as well, we’re not done there,” Hegseth said Tuesday. “I never called it Fort Liberty because it wasn’t Fort Liberty. It’s Fort Bragg.”
The post’s original namesake, Gen. Braxton Bragg, was a Confederate general from North Carolina who was known for owning slaves and losing key Civil War battles, contributing to the Confederacy’s downfall.
Hegseth is renaming the base to honor Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, who the Army said was a World War II hero who earned a Silver Star and Purple Heart for exceptional courage during the Battle of the Bulge.
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The choice of the World War II private first class got around a law prohibiting the military from naming an installation for a Confederate leader. It sets up the potential for the Defense Department to do the same for the other eight Army posts that were renamed — searching through massive military records for service with the same last names who could be cited to revert to the former names.
That effort, however, also could be seen as a slap against some of the highly decorated service whose names are now used for the bases. The former Fort Gordon in Georgia, for example, was renamed Fort Eisenhower to commemorate President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who led allied forces in Europe in World War II.
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Fort Moore – the former Fort Benning on the other side of Georgia – is named for Lt. Gen. Harold Gregory Moore Jr., who earned the Distinguished Service Cross for valor and fought in the Battle of Ia Drang in the Vietnam War.
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