Fort Bragg is back
SecDef Hegseth ordered the renaming of Fort Liberty (Formerly Fort Bragg) back to Fort Bragg late last night. It is not being re-renamed for Braxton Bragg (the original namesake and notoriously terrible CSA general) but instead for Private First Class Roland Bragg of Maine.
PFC Bragg earned the Silver Star for bravery in action against the Germans during WWII. As a member of the 513th Parachute Infantry, of the 17th Airborne Division, during the Battle of the Bulge, Bragg was wounded in action. His Silver Star was awarded after he saved a fellow soldier’s life by stealing an enemy ambulance and using it to drive his wounded comrade 20 miles to an allied hospital in Belgium.
Thanks to 5JC for the tip.
I think this is awesome and a genius move. The demokarens won’t be able to whine and cry about this.
Something to brag about.
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Is that the guy from the Rocky & Bullwinkle tv shows I used to watch when I was a kid and have the whole collection at home.
Commander McBragg.
Got me on that one Beans, I don’t remember any 1950’s
street corner vocal group harmony song with Brag in it.
Don’t worry–they’ll find a way, even if they have to make one up.
Yeah, that’s not surprising. Some of them are trying to rebrand wokeness and DEI as “Patriotic Pluralism” (demokaren thinking: if your against Patriotic Pluralism, then you’re against America and you’re a bunch of nazis!!!).
Any sympathy I had for those misguided fuckers was lost when they claimed veteran hiring was DEI.
Diversitry is Our Strength (TM)… been done.
What race and gender was PFC Bragg? Are you sure they won’t have a reason to whine and cry? Alot of people seem to whine and cry because today is Tuesday. I’m surprised people have not yet demanded we rename the months because Julius Ceaser and Augustus etc, etc, etc…. were all white imperialist who supported conquest, oppression and slavery. Never underestimate the power of groups to be butthurt.
At the time of my initial post, I wasn’t 100% sure that the d-rats wouldn’t have a reason to whine due to the timing of the post being early morning (MST) and I didn’t have my caffeine infusion yet. Now I do and agree with you. Still a genius Trump move, regardless.
Green, male
There is a MOH, awardee Jackson but he is a Marine.
They should have named Hood after Roy Bienvedez. Can we at least fix that?
There might be opportunities to open new military posts with good names in Canada (I think I was wrong about Canada joining being just trolling) and Greenland. I’m still a little iffy on these two possible acquisitions, though.
SapLand and OrangeLand?
51, 52.
They can always name Hood after the culture in Killeen, where they still have “Fort Hood Street ” btw.
Bragg is now named after a car thief. I’m sure there are plenty of 1st Cav vets who fit the Killeen culture.
See slide “K” — “K is for Killeen… ”
https://slideplayer.com/slide/699366/65/video/The+OIF+Alphabet+Book+Illustrated+by+Mrs.+Jones%2C+3rd+Grade+Class+from+Our+Lady+of+Pain+Parochial+School
Roy might be offended.
Next: Ft. Benning???
Gerald L. Benning … Silver Star Medal
https://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient/recipient-116850/
C’mon, SecDef …. I know you can do it!!!
I don’t know about that one. Hal Moore I truly believe was a good man and great warrior and deserving of the honor.
Yes, but the Drats didn’t do it because Hal Moore was great. They didn’t give a rat ass about Moore. They just wanted to pock the infantry in the eye.
So change it back.
We have to reverse all the names they changed. Any name we leave unchanged is a win for the Drats and a step forward in their agenda.
They manipulate the game by changing the goal posts. If they succeed just on one tiny little thing, it is a win for them, and one step further away from America as founded.
A good start…Now…put the Reconciliation Peace Memorial back in Arlington.
“It’s not stolen land when we do it” –Yankee Feral Dogs
If I was a Lee-Custis family member I’d hire a moving company to take back the farm.
The original burying was done out of spite…”Mrs Lee will never want to live here again…” The Lee Family was, eventually, paid some $ for the place after Custis (?) Lee filed suit, albeit well after Marse Robert and his wife had passed, and nowhere near what it was worth. And Marse Robert DID receive a pardon, tho the paperwork was “lost”, well before Jimmuh did his thing in the 1970s. And there were at least two (2) Congressional Resolutions passed stating that Confederate Veterans were American Veterans and due all of the respect and Honors paid to Union Veterans, including Military Headstones. The JEF stopped the Headstone thing via EO. We’re (SCV) paying for them via fundraisers and donations.
TPTB forget the original reason for naming these Southern Military Installations after former Confederates and they forget what the original purpose of The Peace Monument was and how many former Union Officers (and Presidents) supported it. Taking that Headstone (which is it what it was) was grave desecration pure and simple.
My own RINO Kongress Kritter (Rep Scott Austin) led the re-naming committee that pushed all of this thru. (spits!)
Linky to the letter sent to Old Pete is here…
https://scvconfederatelegion.com/2025/01/30/letter-to-us-secretary-of-defense/
If you want to support the return to sanity and contact your Kongress Kritter you can do it here…
https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23428
Deo Vindice!
Full disclosure; not a fan of Braxton Bragg, the epitome of a political Gnrl. There were way yonder more, better Warriors from NC they could’ve named that post for back then. The end result would’ve been the same. Getting Southern Boys to enlist for the War to end all wars.
Ft. Hood could be:
John T. Hood, US Army, Silver Star Medal.
https://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient/recipient-72810/
Admiral Hood currently sits atop Mt. Hood.
Ft. Polk could be:
Legion of Merit (3), DSC, Silver Star (2)
https://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient/recipient-110629/
I recall graduating from Basic at Ft. Dix in 1968 and all the
guys that got AIT orders for Polk were crying.
Ft. Gordon could be:
Gary Ivan Gordon, Medal of Honor (KIA Somalia)
https://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient/recipient-1001/
I’m actually ok with Fort Eisenhower, especially since the Army hospital there was already named for Dwight D. Eisenhower.
I have NO problems either way, both amazing soldiers.
You don’t get it.
This is about kicking the Drats in the ass.
They use the full power of the offices they control to make our lives hell when they are in power, therefore, it is our turn to undo every single little stupid thing they did, to push back on their agenda.
All the names have to be reversed to the old names. Fight fire with fire. Demonstrate to the Drats that whatever they change when they are in power, will be undone.
Anything less is a surrender.
If it is for MSG Gary Gordon, then it has to be linked w/ Sgt 1st Class Randy Shugart. Gordon – Shugart.
As a Navy guy, our bases are named after the city where they are located. I don’t get the whole name of the Fort, but if its good for morale and want the troopers want then I’m all for it. Since we’re in DOGE Mode, lets pick a name then etch in stone.
I’m guessing it’s because a lot of Forts were there before anything else, so there was no town to name them after.. navy boys needed taverns for their time ashore, so bases could only be in established towns.. at least that’s my thoughts..
Whore houses for their time ashore.
Actually Navy Bases were named for the closest post office to where the base was located at the time it was established. That’s why the Submarine Base in Groton, CT is named Submarine Base New London and the shipyard in Kittery, ME is Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Good to know
Which is why I laugh when someone here wanted to “relocate” Portsmouth shipyard to NH.
https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/regional/new-england/new-hampshire-lawmaker-state-boundary-dispute-portsmouth-naval-shipyard/97-61bb346b-0f9c-4f2d-87a1-4430593199be
Should be pretty easy to do. When they switched the name at my last base, everybody had to turn in all the old signage.
Winning!
Never wasn’t not…
Ft Leavenworth should be changed to Camp Pelosi. Where Ms Pelosi could stay in the Schumer room for the criminally insane. Kinda of a break in period with the other lunatic left visiting for a prolonged period of time.
The William J. Le Petomane Memorial Gambling Casino for the Insane?
Close to fifty mill pissed away in the naming, now more in renaming. As we often said under the last administration, don’t they have more urgent things to do?
While I like seeing it back to being FT Bragg,( it was Always Bragg to me anyway) I agree.
I didn’t know the dollar amount tied to the name changes, but when you consider that every little pamphlet etc. that had Bragg on it had to be replaced, it was going to be expensive.
I work (civilian life) as a defense contractor, funny thing is that nearly every meeting that I sit it, it was still Bragg, Hood, Benning, Gordon, Polk, etc.
Well, you know…
Which begs the question, why didn’t the Demontards did this to begin with, changing the reason for the name rather than the name, if they cared so much?
Spite.
I agree.
Considering the name changes cost over $20mil I believe — it wasn’t a free, simple little process to pretty up the place.
What a fucking waste. Like they had nothing better to legislate over…? No black or white politicians between the end of the civil war and the 2020 Floyd riots gave a rats ass about fort names or statues.
Floyd only gave a rat turd about himself and his next drug trip.
He’ll soon be half a decade clean and sober… gotta give him credit for that.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Good move, Sir!
The E4 Mafia approves this tactic. At least, they would if they actually existed.
Aside from the DEI selection of Gregg-Adams, the rest were good choices IMO. I was never a fan a Confederate recognition of anything other than in the history books as the losers. I understand how we got the names (needed land during WWI and the locals were by and large allowed to pick the names) but was generally OK with the changes except the above named and debatable between Cavazos and Beniviedez, both heroes.
As for Bragg, I would have left it Bragg to begin with since the original namesake did more to ensure Union victory than most Union generals 🙂
Benavidez was a good choice, his name is currently in use on one of the Bob Hope Class vessels in with MSC.
I got to meet MSG Benavidez when I was a PFC.
Such a humble guy.
Inspiring to meet someone like him as a junior soldier.
Good solution.
So are some of the suggestions on here for other bases.
Before I start, I was stationed at Ft. Bragg during the last 9 months of my service after coming home from the “Nam in 1969. However, to name an Army fort after a traitor like Bragg, who was a 5th rate general is bad! It s/be named after a LOYAL American!