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These are all U.S. Army or Army National Guard posts, typically named following World War I and during the 1940s. [1] [2] In 2021, the United States Congress created The Naming Commission, a United States government commission, in order to rename federally-owned military assets that have names associated with the CSA. [3]
On June 9, 2020, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced that she had "filed an amendment to the annual defense bill last week to rename all bases named for Confederate generals." [ 8 ] On June 11, 2020, Reps. Anthony Brown (D-MD) and Don Bacon (R-NE) introduced H.R.7155, National Commission on Modernizing Military Installation Designations Act.
The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). [2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. [3]
The U.S. Army garrison commands organizational Fort Liberty flag waves after a redesignation ceremony officially renaming the military installation on June 2, 2023 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
The order contravenes a measure backed in Congress that led to the renaming of the army base in 2023, which was part of a wider initiative to rename military installations commemorating figures ...
The Department of Defense has approved the renaming of nine military bases that honor confederate officers, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The post Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III ...
Base Realignment and Closure, 2005 added to this list when 26 bases were combined into twelve and renamed as joint bases. [2] In addition, several other uses of the term "joint" are used in names of bases in the United States military [clarification needed] and are described below.
The base was officially renamed in 2023.Costs to update its name were estimated at $8 million at the time. It's unclear how much it might cost the military to change the name again.