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Fort Bragg is a military installation of the United States Army in North Carolina, and is one of the largest military installations in the world by population, with over 52,000 military personnel. [2] It is named in honor of Braxton Bragg Confederate Army general. (Before briefly being named Fort Liberty, it was originally named for General ...
Fort Liberty began as Camp Bragg in 1918 as an Army artillery training ground. It was named after Braxton Bragg, who, according to the commission charged with changing base names, was “a slave ...
The United States Army Airborne & Special Operations Museum (ASOM) is part of the U.S. Army Museum Enterprise dedicated to preserving and teaching a public history of the Special Operations and Airborne community, as well as broader United States military history. Located on Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg), but geographically separate from ...
Former President Trump on Friday vowed to revert North Carolina’s Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg if he’s elected this fall, a little over a year after the military installation was ...
Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake Friday to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony some veterans said was a small but important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to current and ...
After five years, Camp Bragg became a permanent Army post renamed Fort Bragg, and as Fort Liberty from 2023 to 2025. Original operations included photographing terrain for mapping, carrying the mail, and spotting for artillery and forest fires. Observation planes and observation balloons occupied Pope Field for the first eight years.
Until it was changed to Fort Liberty, the North Carolina military base — which is the Army’s largest post — had been named after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg. Fort Moore, which is now the ...
Camp Bragg was established in 1918 as an artillery training ground. The Chief of Field Artillery, General William J. Snow, was seeking an area having suitable terrain, adequate water, rail facilities, and a climate suitable for year-round training, and he decided that the area met all of the desired criteria. [3]