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Fort Hood (1942), in Killeen, Texas, named for Confederate General John Bell Hood, was redesignated Fort Cavazos on 9 May 2023 in honor of General Richard Cavazos [19] Fort Lee (1917), in Prince George County, Virginia, named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee, was redesignated Fort Gregg-Adams on 27 April 2023 in honor of Lieutenant General ...
The installation was originally named for Henry L. Benning, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. [3] [4] Fort Benning was one of the ten U.S. Army installations named for former Confederate generals that were renamed on 11 May 2023.
Fort Lee, an Army base in Virginia named after a Confederate general, was renamed on Thursday as Fort Gregg-Adams to honor Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams, two Black officers who ...
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 fort was originally named for Henry Lewis Benning, a lawyer, politician, firebrand secessionist and Confederate general. The name change to Fort Moore followed the 2021 Defense Authorization ...
White House officials are revisiting the idea of renaming U.S. military bases that are named after Confederate generals. White House officials revisit renaming military bases named after ...
In 2020, during the George Floyd protests, there were renewed calls to rename U.S. Army installations named after Confederate soldiers, including Fort Benning. [8] Fort Benning was renamed Fort Moore, after Lieutenant General Hal Moore Jr. and his wife, Julia as of May 11, 2023. [9] It is the only base named for a married couple. [10]
The change was the most prominent in a broad Department of Defense initiative, motivated by the 2020 George Floyd protests, to rename military installations that had been named after confederate ...