Tuesday shorts – Ft. Hood, renaming schedule
The Military Times reports that our favorite PC project, renaming those bases originally named for nasty Southerners, is in process – we have read before what the new names will be (can’t argue with naming bases or ships after most of them – better than names like Murtha or Harvey Milk, right?) Ft. Hood is coming up on the list, which will sure be a relief to this adopted Texan – sure happy that all those command and morale problems are going to disappear with the old name, right? Everything about Ft. Cavazos will be new and wonderful, I am sure.
But changing that stationery letterhead gets pricey. Remember when they said it would cost $22,000,000? Ah, those good old days when things were cheap…
The Army expects to pay $39 million, said Lt. Gen. Kevin Vereen, Army deputy chief of staff for installations. In 2022, the congressionally-mandated Naming Commission estimated it would cost $21 million to rename the nine Army installations.
The Defense Department initially gave the Army $1 million to change the names, but “that’s not anywhere close to what we need,” Vereen told members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies.
Ain’t that funding in a nutshell – Congress thinks it will cost $22 million, the Army has barely started and says it needs $39 million, and DoD funds it to the tune of one million.
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Remember this lady? She and her husband set a record recently as the first O-6 married couple to both be investigated. Well, they’ve stretched their lead: both have been relieved, or “fired” in layman’s terms. The Army, per normal, cited ‘loss of confidence’ in their ability to lead. Per the Army the investigations were unrelated. Military Times II
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Speaking of the post renaming, the Army has released its schedule.
Ft. Picket is first up, renamed Ft. Barfoot Friday last
Ft. Rucker is next up, becoming Ft. Novosel April 20.
Ft. Lee will become Ft. Gregg-Adams on April 27
Ft. Hood becomes Ft. Cavazos on May 9
Ft. Benning becomes Ft. Moore on May 11
Ft. Bragg will be Ft. Liberty on June 2.
Ft. Gordon, Ft. A.P. Hill, and Ft. Polk’s dates are TBD
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This is why the Ukrainians haven’t changed the name of the Azov Brigade yet, (named after Hitler’s Butler) the stationary costs are too high.
I think you are just pulling my leg, and maybe a “/sarc” tag is not necessary (?).
Heinz Linge was Hitler’s valet. The Azov Brigade took its name from the Sea of Azov.
Still a round-out Bn to the Dirlewanger Brigade at the time, as I understand.
What about Fort Levine? To honor the first transgender to hold the rank of Admiral. What’s up with that?
What about a ship named Levine? A littoral combat model where you can’t tell the bow from the stern and it can sail in both directions.
Equity, not equality – when it comes to naming things. Come on, man!
Fort Custer? C’mon, Democrats, you know you want to do that!
Now Fort Custer would be their last stand and I stand firm that there will be a stand at the front of the main gate but not Carvel.
The Navy is going to name a dry dock after Levine.
Fort Hood isn’t being named Fort Osbourne?
Plan B,
Fort Hood / Fort Cavazos could be named Fort Cavazo,
after longtime USO overseas volunteer
Quiet Riot guitar veteran Carlos Cavazo.
Battle Axe.
Carlos Cavazo played guitar solos,
with Quiet Riot, Big Noize, and another all star rock band,
to US military on USO tours in at least 5 countries.
Great use of funds this.. obviously the most important thing on the docket..
We’re only short troops, ammo and other measures of readiness in the face of the Chicoms getting froggy and Ukraine, but let’s do this.
It will pack in the recruits, knowing that the bases will be all the names that they can be.
“Fort Hood Running Out Of Gates To Name After Murdered Soldiers”
III Corpse” Is Less A Typo Than An Undercount.”
https://www.duffelblog.com/p/fort-hood-running-out-of-gates-to
The Grate Place
Ft Hood will still be called Ft Hood for at least another generation of soldiers and troopers, no matter what the flag oroficers, big wigs and politicians may declare and demand otherwise.
“Ft. Gordon, Ft. A.P. Hill, and Ft. Polk’s dates are TBD”
So, you are saying Ft. Chelsey Manning still has a chance?
So the Army searched far and wide and couldn’t find ONE hero from the 82nd Airborne, XVIII Corps, or Special Forces to rename Bragg after and decided to name it after an insurance company instead?
That’s the kind of thinking that wins wars. 
I mean – Alvin York? Roy Benavidez? Matt Ridgway? Jim Gavin? William Yarborough?
Nope. Apparently not. I guess all those clashing egos couldn’t agree on a name so we get “Fort Liberty Bibberty.”
Hopefully they get a nice check from Liberty Mutual for the “naming rights” just like a big city sports stadium.
Come to think of it, why not just auction off the naming rights to US bases? I can hear it now:
“Where are you headed to?”
“Oh, I just left General Dynamics Air Force Base, now I’m headed to Fort Raytheon. From there I’ll go to Sikorsky Army Airfield and then I’ll drive to the North Carolina coast where I’ll be at Camp Pornhub marine base.”
Fat Leonard NAS.
If it was renamed Ft Benavidez I would go back just to get a selfie in front of the sign of probably the toughest MF’er who ever served.
Toughest MF’er that ever drew breath. Chuck Norris has a picture of him on his wall.
So what’s next? Gonna rename former slave states? How about erasing the “eeeeevil southerner’s” names from the alumni records at West Point?
People need to get lives.
Because naming a Texas Army base after Audie Murphy, would make too much sense…
My thoughts exactly when first hearing of the fort re-naming process. I guess there’s just no respect at all for we former members of “The Old China Hands” (15th Infantry Regiment), despite the fact that now with the addition of SFC Cashe, the Regiment has a total of 21 MOH recipients.
It’s stupid and a waste of time but I couldn’t care less about changing names. Really, they were at minimum, losers, and (depending on who you talk to), traitors. BUT, in doing so, we really missed the mark in what we did choose. Fort Moore is a win, in my opinion, but the others? Not so much.
These asshats better not try to rename Provo’s Privy.
It sings.
Is Rowe’s Memorial Shithouse still standing?
That one I do not know, sorry!
Fort Dix will now be called the more Inclusive, Fort ChixwithDix
At least there is no Fort Manning…yet
I never served on Forts Cavazos, Moore, Liberty (seriously, not Simons, Donovan, Bank, Benavidez? hell, I’d prefer Ft. John Rambo over Fort Liberty), or whatever ridiculousness they’ll give to Fort Polk… McNair already has a base, right? Maybe Fort Clark for the Louisiana Maneuvers?
Either way, the first jackass to insist I was stationed at Liberty and not Bragg is losing a few teeth.
As I understand it, they’re intending to rename Fort Hood to Fort Good. Because Fort Hood had such a negative connotation to criminal behavior, that perhaps the change to “Fort Good” might invoke a feeling of positivity, and a sort of Superman support for Truth, Justice, and the American Way, in hopes that this might subconsciously lead the soldiers on the post (even those of a sociopathic dispostion) would be less likely to commit assault, rape, murder, assault-rape, rape-assault, rape-murder, assault-murder, or murder-murder.