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Fort Eisenhower, formerly known as Fort Gordon and Camp Gordon, is a United States Army installation established southwest of Augusta, Georgia in October 1941. It is the current home of the United States Army Signal Corps, United States Army Cyber Command, and the Cyber Center of Excellence as well as the National Security Agency/Central Security Service' Georgia Cryptologic Center (NSA ...
After a multi-year process, Fort Eisenhower is now officially the name of the local military installation and Fort Gordon has been retired. A celebration of legacy: Fort Gordon officially becomes ...
In February 2025, the base was again renamed to Fort Bragg, this time for World War II paratrooper Roland L. Bragg. [16] Fort Gordon (1917), near Augusta, Georgia, named for Confederate General John Brown Gordon, was redesignated Fort Eisenhower on 27 October 2023 in honor of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the ninth renaming. [17] [18]
The fort was renamed Fort Eisenhower as of October 27, 2023, as part of an effort to end naming of US forts after Confederate officials. The John Brown Gordon statue on the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta is the only public equestrian statue in the city.
On Thursday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin accepted the recommendations of the Naming Commission to rename assets honoring confederates.
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The fort was renamed in 1935 at the request of Congressman Howard W. Smith (D-VA), an "avowed white supremacist". [51] In March 2022, the commission determined that the fort did not meet the criteria provided in the 2021 NDAA but recommends that the DoD conduct its own naming review of the post. [33]
Fort Gordon leadership is ready to rename the installation Fort Eisenhower on Friday. Fort leadership and dignitaries rehearsed on Wednesday.