What post name? What day is it?
Just when you thought you had a handle on what bases were named what, BRAC the post renaming committee changed everything and the old names like Ft. Hood, Ft. Benning, etc. had to be renamed to something less politically volatile than the surname of a long dead guy who fought on the wrong side. Originally the names were chosen as a means of uniting Civil War vets with vets of the War of Northern Aggression so that we could just get on with being Americans – but the folks who constantly seek to polarize and divide us seized on those names and made them a cause celebre (even though in most cases I doubt they even knew who the names actually referred to.)
So after great pearl-clutching and handwringing, not to mention somewhere north of 42,000,000 buckadingdongs, a half-dozen posts (some of which people barely knew existed) got their bright shiny new names. As expected, peace and tranquility unseen since they took the black fella off the rice, the Indian maiden off the butter, and took away the residual income from a not otherwise wealthy family in northeast Texas whose g’-grandmother appeared on syrup containers. In other words, hardly anyone in the real world noticed (other than, of course, us.) Although I think there are at least a few readers who still aren’t sure which fort is Cavazos Hood Benning Drum Bliss whatever.
Now, one of Mr. Trump’s campaign promises was to rename the bases to their original names, and Mr. Hegseth did so in a pretty clever way by giving the forts their original names…but said they were named for other PEOPLE. A fairly clever dodge, that… although the fiscal hawks did say that after blowing $42 mill on renaming, spending a probable additional $42mill to change the names BACK should have pissed off the DOGE boys, especially when the inevitable Democrat President down the road (we all know one’s a’comin’ sooner or later) will probably decide to piss away another $42 mill or more re-re-naming (or is that re-re-re-?). Heck, a hundred years down the road it may have become tradition “the President was sworn in today and released the names by which military bases will be known during this administration. First one named was Fort Dweezil Zappa.”)
At least until today.
The House Armed Services Committee passed an amendment to its annual defense policy bill barring the Pentagon from using any of the funds from next year’s defense budget to rename Defense Department installations in honor of Confederate figures.
Me, I am remembering Hegseth’s ploy – he didn’t rename Bragg and Benning after Confederates, he named them after US soldiers. So technically he can spend what he wants, right?
The amendment, which was proposed by Rep. Marilyn Strickland, a Democrat from Washington, barely eked its way into the bill, with two Republicans, Rep. Derek Schmidt of Kansas and Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, voting with Democrats on July 16 to include it.
The vice chair of the base renaming commission, retired Army Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, praised the amendment. Seidule, who led the history department at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, told USA TODAY he was “proud” of the committee for respecting “the will of the American people” as expressed when Congress created the bipartisan naming commission in 2021.USAToday
Sorry, General, I’m an American and I was OK with the old names. Have some memories of some of those posts, too (maybe not fond memories, but still.) Anyone want to bet this fella’s name appeared on a few of those “X many admirals and generals think Republicans suck” lists?
So the game plays on. Rename? Re-rename? Stay tuned. Might be fun.
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Well, then, how about renaming Twentynine Palms to something more accurate? Hack Stone was told by a local tgat back in the day, the twin, and subsequent base, were named for an oasis of Twentynine palm trees, which were subsequently lit on fire by some hippies quite a few decades ago.
“lit on fire by some hippies”
Was it on a Sunday?
Every day is a Monday when you find yourself in 29 Stumps.
Fort Rupal!
If MCB Twentynine Palms gets renamed, then the town next to the base will have to be renamed and Robert Plant will have to rewrite his song.
That’s too much bloodshed.
We’ll still have U-2’s The Joshua Tree.
Speaking of the Upper Morongo Valley, as Director of Media Relations, the Vice President of Operations of the proud but humble woman owned business who was briefly known as Palmer of The Ballsack before reverting to his anti-Christian name of Psul of The Ballsack, has officially revealed that we will be relocating corporate headquarters to Amboy California, a thriving metropolis at the crossroads of America. He anticipates a lot of foot traffic, mostly from drivers who ran out of gas because they didn’t want to pay the high prices in 29 Stumps.
Were the hippies illegally encamped at Lake Bandini for some drug fueled fun in the sun?
I heard the hippies were living in the A frames at Camp Wilson and got run out. Rumor is if you stay in one of those A frames to long you will pop positive for weed on a piss test.
One of Hack Stone’s many working parties between classes was building those A-Frames in June of 1982. During tomorrow’s WOT, Hack Stone will entertain you all (or “y’all” if you are Jasmine Crockett) with a no shit story involving Article 82 charges.
D’oh! That should be Article 87, Missing Military Movement.
The posts’ original namesakes were irrelevant. I’m from the South–grew up in and around Richmond and spent my entire career south of the Mason-Dixon line. I consider myself a slight bit of a historian, visited many Civil War battlefields growing up, and am proud of my family’s American heritage going back to early 1600s Virginia.
That said, not once did I ever stop to think, “damn, I’m training on George Pickett’s post,” or I’m heading to Ol’ Marse Robert’s Commissary today.” The names might have been symbolic when they were commissioned, but after two World Wars and a slew of smaller conflicts, those names are ingrained in our consciousnesses. Take Benning, for example. Home of the Infantry for over a century, and in recent decades, the home of Cavalry and Armor too as the maneuver Center of Excellence. I stepped foot on Benning as an E-1 in 2001, went back as an E-6 for BNCOC nearly six years later, and was assigned there as an E-6 and E-7 from 2016-2018. Hal Moore had a storied career and was a great officer, but at the rate we’re going, Fort Moore would have never gotten the reputation Benning has. Since 1918, Benning churned out the troops that fought around the globe, including participating in our finest victories. I know Benning was a Confederate General, but I couldn’t tell you much else about him. What I know about Braxton Bragg is just that I retained from watching the History Gone Wilder YouTube channel: History Gone Wilder | Have History Will Travel – YouTube.
Benning, Lee, Bragg, AP Hill, Pickett, and Polk were places I trained or served at, or frequently visited. I’m glad the names are back, and really don’t care if they’re technically names after different people than they were.
I think “Witcher” says it best…
It’s like trying to find the instructions to reset your watch whenever Daylight Saving Time kicks in. Why doesn’t Big Army just replace the name of the installation with an unpronounceable symbol, and everyone can just say “I am stationed at the base formerly known as Fort Bragg”?
Sorta like the symbol Prince used:
“I was stationed at Fort ꝕ”
You are on a track, not sure if it is the right one. Fort Bragg could then be either
فورت براج
or
要塞吹牛
Something seems fishy about your idea though, cant put my finger on it.
In fairness tribal natives in the Americas never ate butter prior to the arrival of Europeans. There were no cows or goats at the time in the Americas and being of North Asian decent they are widely lactose intolerant anyway. So putting an Indian maiden on the butter package was a clearly racist. I mean maybe not clearly, truth is I have no idea why the left thinks it is, just pointing out butter wasn’t a thing back then. Where is Commissar when you need him to explain leftist points of view?
My son has had his base change names twice since he has been stationed there. The initial post was Camp Gordon, after the wildly successful General John B Gordon from the Civil War who rose from elected company militia commander to Corps Commander by the war’s close, whose surrender at Appomattox marked the end of the war. He was wounded at least ten times during the war and he and his men were starving by the end of it. He was one hell of a tactician and fighter
Gordon was also obscenely racist till his death in the 20th Century and head of the Georgia KKK for decades. That and his open opposition to reconstruction led to him being elected governor twice. He was widely loved by white people in Georgia.
Then we named it Eisenhower. Ike was of course one of our greatest generals of all time and a decent president. He is generally considered by historians to be 4th (best US general) after Washington, Grant and Patton. I would say Ike is worthy.
Now it is named after Gary Gordon (John 3:16), one of three Delta operators to earn the MoH. I’d say Gary is also a worthy name.
The problem in my mind was not so much the name changes but HOW it was done that raised so much blood pressure. The major swipe all at once white washing history for so little payoff and so much clenched little muscles. Tying it to the fraudulent and failed 1619 project was an albatross of lies and fiction it couldn’t possibly lift.
John B Gordon was a great general, maybe not as great as Eisenhower, but he was right up there and well, a bad ass. Like all men he was a product of his time, upbringing and a failed political system. He then helped create another long since failed political system. He was a hero of his people. Sadly he never became a hero of THE people, which some did after the Civil War. So while he serves as a great example of military skill and leadership, he only serves it for a notably select majority portion of the population. If you aren’t in that population it feels quite different.
Ike would have been a great choice but the way it was done practically guaranteed he would fall to reactionary politics. He deserves better but such is politics. Gary Gordon deserves better as well. Merely to insert a name in there because it matched the name of the old post seems exploitive and cheap to me. Little or no thought went into the process. Does this mean that Shughart’s sacrifice was somehow less? A better choice might have been Fort Gordon-Shughart. Honoring two men who born apart, nonetheless died as brothers. Like a Foucault Pendulum, when the pendulum of politics swings back it never goes back to exactly where it was, but only minutely forward in time.
“The problem in my mind was not so much the name changes but HOW it was done that raised so much blood pressure.”
Over the course of, what, three years, reminders of the Confederate States and its heroes–flawed though they might have been–were literally torn down and erased from history.
Our country was still extremely young in 1861-1865, and when what’s now known as the Lost Cause revisionists decided to commemorate the men who fought for the South, as well as the South’s ideals, there were still a number of elderly Civil War veterans around. To have those statues and monuments removed or destroyed was a slap in the face to the communities that grew up with them, and the renaming of the bases simply added another insult to the injury. It was a final blow in a decade-plus of “systemic racism” being shoved down our throats, and ill-conceived attempts to highlight and/or fix things: BLM, 1619 Project, ACAB/F12, “Indigenous People’s Day”, Juneteenth, etc. All essentially serve as a reminder that White people were and are still guilty of every unimaginable crime against “POCs”, and that even our “protectors” (cops), Founding Fathers, and colonial European predecessors should be despised and rescripted as the bad guys. I was born White, so I’m inherently racist, and being from the South makes me unworthy of any sense of pride in what my ancestors once stood for and accomplished.
Too many transgressions against southern (and in turn U.S.) history, done in too short a timeframe, and in far too targeted a manner. There will always be racism, but it wasn’t until our First Black President that the subject became a widely talked about and heated national issue again, decades after many of us stopped seeing color, and instead judged people on the “content of their character”.
What fm2176 said [right there]
“There will always be racism, but it wasn’t until our First Black President that the subject became a widely talked about and heated national issue again, decades after many of us stopped seeing color, and instead judged people on the “content of their character.”
That whole “content of their character” thing is the cause of many of today’s racial issues. We’ve looked at the content of the character of the “activists” of today (of all colors, creeds, or whatever pigeonhole you prefer) and found their character to be sorely lacking anything of substance. Just whiny crybabies wanting more free shit.
The big secret is that everyone is inherently biased. Not necessarily racist but we all hold biased views, it can’t be any other way or we would all agree on everything all the time.
Some of this is as simple as an optical illusion such as the below picture that some say the middle jerks around, even though it doesn’t. The closer you look at the whole picture the more it tends to “move”. All of our senses can fail us or differ from one person to the next.
Some are simple failures in logic such as the bat and ball math problem that most people get wrong, because the problem seems simple so they only dedicate a tiny portion of their brain to dealing with it instead of thinking it through:
“A bat and a ball cost $1.10 when purchased together. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much is the ball?”
$.10 right? That is the most common answer.
An extra ten seconds spent thinking about it merits the correct answer, although some people, once they come up with $.10 won’t let it go and insist that is the right answer, because they refuse to rethink it.
Most everything else is much more complex. The thing that most people miss out of sheer irony is that as soon as they say; “that person is racist because (pick any simplistic metric)”, they have already fallen into a trap and don’t even know it. Their biases have interfered with their thought processes.
If you remember your math class, the question is easier:
BAT + BALL = $1.10
BAT = BALL + $1.00
BALL + $1 + BALL = $1.10
2 x BALL =$0.10
BALL = $0.05
BAT = $1.05
And then you wonder when the last a bat and ball cost that little, then feel old.
In my life, never.
The saddest part of this is these are the *same exact people* preaching how we must learn about our inherent biases so we cam be better aware of them.
So much of the left’s issues are projection. This is yet another case of that.
Some issues are simple. Others aren’t, but their biases won’t let them see that, and they’re so far down the rabbit they don’t realize the classes they’ve gone to on recognizing their biases are actually indoctrination to conceal and reinforce those biases.
That was exactly my point, expressed better.
I wouldn’t have gotten there without your post provoking thoughts, good sir.
Now do Fort Rucker, Alabama…and watch heads explode!
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11070281/amos-rucker
Need an accompanying photograph!!
Happening right now as we type! Not a joke! 😉
“WATCH: “Official Redesignation Ceremony For Fort Rucker”
https://www.wtvy.com/2025/07/17/watch-official-redesignation-ceremony-fort-rucker/
“The home of Army Aviation will be officially redesignated Fort Rucker Thursday morning.”
“President Donald Trump announced his intent to change the name of the base in June.”
“However, the Fort Rucker moniker will honor a different soldier.”
“Captain Edward Walter Rucker was a pioneering Army Aviator and distinguished combat pilot from World War I.”
“He received a Distinguished Service Cross for his heroism in World War I. He was also awarded the Croix de Guerre by France.”
“The redesignation ceremony is set for 9 a.m. Thursday morning.”
“Fort Rucker Again…But Not That Rucker”
https://www.wtvy.com/2025/06/11/fort-rucker-againbut-not-that-rucker/
“After just a little over two years being known as Fort Novosel, the Fort Rucker name is back for the Army post in Dale County.”
“While Fort Rucker’s name is returning, it won’t be in honor of Col. Edmund Rucker, a Confederate brigade commander from Tennessee.”
“Instead, the namesake of the “Home of Army Aviation” is intended to honor a different soldier.”
“Meet Capt. Edward W. Rucker, a Missouri native who became a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross for his “extraordinary heroism” in World War I.”
“Flying deep behind enemy lines, then-1st Lt. Rucker and his fellow aviators engaged a numerically superior enemy force in a daring aerial battle over France, disrupting enemy movements and completing their mission against overwhelming odds,” the U.S. Army said in a statement announcing the renaming of Fort Rucker.”
“Rucker was also awarded the Croix de Guerre with palm by France for his act of heroism in combat.”
“Unlike Col. Edmund Rucker, who had his ties to the state as an industrial leader in Birmingham post-Civil War, and Chief Warrant Officer Michael J. Novosel, a late Enterprise resident who became the Army post’s namesake as a Medal of Honor recipient for actions performed in Vietnam, Capt. Edward Rucker has no ties to either the area or Alabama.”
“After World War I ended, Capt. Rucker relocated to New York, living in Oneonta and Buffalo until the early 1940s. He also possibly lived in or near St. Louis, Missouri, during World War II, as he listed his residence as such when registering for the “Old Man’s Draft” in 1942, with his occupation at the time noted as “disabled and retired.”
“Capt. Rucker passed away in 1945 in Fayette, Missouri, and is interred at the Walnut Ridge Cemetery also in Fayette.”
Respects to Captain Rucker, he seems a great American. I never heard of him before he was named as the new Ft. Rucker. I never heard of Chief Novosel before this:
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=122638
Clearly also a great American, likely a bit more impactful, modern and arguably more historic.
I played a small part in Chief Novosel’s funeral. Our Full Honors team conducted the funeral, of course, and as a Standard Honors Casket Team Leader, I was put in charge of cordoning off the site. He was buried just below the Tomb, in Section 7A alongside a lot of other well-known heroes. Whenever there’s a funeral near the Tomb, tourists hear the music and Firing Party and tend to wander down towards the sounds.
What’s sad is that deserving heroes like Novosel and Moore got what is essentially sloppy seconds: becoming temporary namesakes for installations that would be known by their previous (and now current) names for years.
He was certainly the stuff of legends. Hollywood could never write a script that great.
Like so many other stories of military badassery, nobody would believe it.
For the record, I did five schools and one assignment at Benning. I have many memories of the place, but I had no problem with renaming it; mainly because we got a winner with Moore. Others were missed opportunities or blatantly placating to different crowds. (Essentially doing what naming them after southern generals did in the first place but with different special groups.).
At first, I rejected the “you are erasing history” part of the argument, but then I saw how the Fort Moore PAO changed all their post history on their websites, saying things which indisputably happened on Fort Benning actually happened on Fort Moore, like in the 1930s. No, that happened on Fort Benning. Nothing happened on Fort Moore until it was named as such. Turns out I was wrong on that. Now that it’s changed back, an honest telling of history would include a stint as Fort Moore. Maybe I’ll write a book! Call it the history of Fort Yo Yo.
Dammit dude. Didn’t we have this conversation before?
The problem is not how great Moore was. The problem is the the Drats want to rename everything to erase history in order to rewrite our past and thus reshape our future.
They ALWAYS keep moving the goal posts. How long until Washington becomes person non grata and its his turn to be removed from history?
Understand, these people are Marxists masquerading as classical liberals. They America to be destroyed as founded, and rebuilt as a Communist paradise.
It is our duty, to our country and the future generations of Americans, to oppose EVERY Democrat policy and EVERY Democrat action. It has come to this.
At least they haven’t started burning books again…
Don’t be ridiculous. They never stopped burning books. They just don’t get quite the attention that they used to. This site track the Fahrenheit 451 Firemen as they go merrily about their task on all parts of the political spectrum.
https://freespeechproject.georgetown.edu/can-it-happen-here-the-return-of-book-banning-and-burning-in-the-united-states/
In the 21st century the equivalent of burning books is banning people from social media and other public spaces. They have certainly done that.
Agreed, I have off today, so I’m squandering my time here and on YouTube instead of installing the $4k worth of appliances that got delivered earlier. I’ll go down the rabbit hole a little bit.
Fort Moore was named after a deserving hero, but the name changes established a precedent that might not have stopped with a single redesignation (well, now a second one back to the original post names). None of us will be around then, but if this country’s still standing and the Left has its way, 100 years from now our place names and even U.S. history might not be recognizable to any of us.
First, let’s rename military installations for people far more deserving than some privileged White officer. Fort Moore was a good start, but Fort (Rayshard) Brooks would commemorate a Black man unjustifiably killed by a White officer in nearby Atlanta. Fort Floyd has a nice ring to it, so we’d have to figure out which base would receive such a recognized and widely hailed name.
Washington, DC has a few issues. First, it needs to become a state, complete with its two Senators. Second, and equally as important, it’s named after a slave holder who’s had too much time in the historical spotlight. The 52nd State of Obama (after Puerto Rico becomes the 51st) would serve to remind of us our nation’s rebirth, with the election of The First Black President (and Nobel Peace Prize recipient) negating all that the previous 45 Presidents had accomplished.
McDonald’s sounds too ethnic, in the wrong sense of the word. It reminds us of White supremacy, with red-headed Irishmen doing jigs while assembling Big Macs in the kitchen. Let’s honor those brave young men and women who labor away for $12/hr. by renaming the chain to Tyqueisha’s.
Anything Trump becomes property of the state, with Trump Tower renamed to Reparation Redoubt and turned into public housing with armed guards keeping residents in and outsiders out (think kind of like the building in the 2012 Dredd movie).
We could rename Ft. Pierce, Ft. Floyd. They really love crack and violence down there.
In fact here is a resident man who “said his name” by punching a pregnant woman in the stomach and stole her purse because he needed the money.
What better way to honor the man?
https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending-now/florida-man-punches-pregnant-woman-in-stomach-steals-purse-police-say/991817046/
Federal law enforcement is consolidated under one agency: the Federal Bureau of Incarceration. Most facilities formerly occupied by oppressive agencies like ICE and the DEA are remodeled into 4-and-5-star resorts for newly welcomed Americans who crossed our open borders. The new FBI serves two purposes: 1) refrain from oppressing anyone who’s in lockstep with the New American Standard (especially minorities), and 2) prosecute and incarcerate any compliant former citizen who goes against that Standard (especially Whites and those deemed to have “Excessive Whiteness”).
Anyone who can trace family lineage in the US four generations or more is barred from running for public office. First-generation Americans–even those still awaiting what used to be considered legal residence–are encouraged to run for local and state office, including the presidency.
But why even call us the United States anymore? One thing that’s bad in 2025 could be fixed by 2125: those meddlesome individual states with their elected officials. Texas and Florida have proven themselves incapable of electing politicians who toe the New American Standard line. California, on the other hand, has exemplified things. So, no more state elections. In fact, no more states as we now know them. Each state will have a governor appointed by the President, and federal law will be the law of the land, with the revamped FBI having full jurisdiction over all of the Unaffiliated Peoples’ United Republic of Socialists, aka American Socialist States of Holistically Opportunist Liberals (UPURS ASSHOL).
The New Founding Fathers (Obama, Harris, Killary) will be taught in reeducation camps and schools, with K-20 school producing the finest scholars in the world, with all 20th-grade graduates possessing a master’s degree in ASSHOL history and governance.
Okay, time for Home Depot…🔨
Looks like you were so busy telling me I was wrong to notice where I said I was wrong. Bottom line I have no problems with renaming posts, but don’t do so for political reasons, and don’t pretend it never happened. They failed both of these standards and I’m opposed to that. But my memories from Benning (and Hood) occurred at Benning and Hood—whatever it’s called in the future.
I did four schools at the the Benning Home for Wayward Boys. The last was three weeks to prepare me to be a rifle company commander in the Viet of the Nam.
My sole Benning assignment was the evolution into a one of Uncle Sam’s avenging angels. A memorable experience to be sure. Sadly my career of being booted from a perfectly good air craft totalled 5 jumps, hence my here to now secret moniker, the five jump chump.
Except for 8 months in Vietnam, I was always on hip status
Jump status. Eff IPhones!
I was born in the army hospital on Benning! My family has been in Columbus since the War Between the States, and my great grand uncle was a major land owner and banker in Columbus, head of the Lion’s Club and Chamber of Commerce…. His obit stated he was largely responsible for Columbus being selected for the site of Ft. Benning.
My father, born in Columbus, graduated the Airborne School in 1947 (and also received glider wings), and attended OCS and other army schools there.
I also spent a lot of time there for OSUT, OCS, IOBC, Ranger, Airborne, and IOAC.
So I have a bit of skin in the game and am very pleased that it’s again Fort Benning.
Cool. Remove all MLK names as he was a rapist, communist and plagiarist.
Well now if we did that where the communists and rapists congregate if not on MLK Boulevard?
Re open Camp Devens and use it to detain all the leftist,
liberal Communists in Massachusetts while we sort them out.
Yes, they could use the buildings that the 10th SFGA used to occupy before it was moved to Colorado.
At least some of them are already in use by 1/25 Marines and the 25th Marines Regimental HQ… however there’s plenty of room for tents across Rt. 2 for them, and they could be one with mother earth at the same time.
Dweezil has done a very fine job of carrying on his father’s musical tradition and even has a singer who handles Napoleon Murphy Brock’s vocal range pretty well.
Nonetheless, other than a few casual mentions of Edwards AFB back in the 1960s I don’t recall Frank making any reference to anything military related 🙂
“The amendment, which was proposed by Rep. Marilyn Strickland, a Democrat from Washington, barely eked its way into the bill, with two Republicans, Rep. Derek Schmidt of Kansas and Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, voting with Democrats on July 16 to include it.”
Remember who the traitors are!
Stop wasting OUR money on dumb shit!!!!
That doesn’t change a damn thing!!!!
Here’s some quick math for ya:
$82M / 350M =$4,268
That the government could have given each of us back. For my household, that would have equaled almost $30k (me, wife, 5 young-uns).
I’d rather have my money back and stick to the old names.
And just think; this is only one waste of our money!
Speaking of math problems….
$83/350
The actual answer is $.23 per person. If you pool your windfall you could buy a small soda, maybe.
Could we get the answer to the 1.10 math question?
If they cost 1.10 together, and one is a dollar more than the other, the other one (ball) costs .10 cents
I always thought it was $.05 and $1.05. Wow, was I off…
People are going to start thinking you guys are sock puppets for making my point so eloquently.
I’m still trying to figure out how it went from a ball and bat in your post to two balls in OmegaPaladin’s post.
That way confuses me too, but it is correct by algebra. Algebra has always made more sense to me and seems faster.
For me it is easier to say you are solving for the ball in cents.
y = Ball
y+100 = Bat
110 = Total
It could be written as
y+100+y = 110
or easier just to say
2y+100 = 110
Then
2y+100 = 110 (-100)
Then
2y = 10 (/2)
Then
y = 5
Bat is 105 ball is 5.
I suck at algebra on a good day, but even I could follow that. Many thanks!
Y = ball
Y+ 100 = ball and bat
110 total
110 – 100 =10
Why is this wrong?
Several reasons. but most importantly the Bat is $1 more. If the ball were $.10 and the bat was $1 it would only be $.90 more.
Well fuck. Toldja I suck at algebra. I have to rely on white privilege because I can’t math.
Did the math wrong! Doesn’t matter either way. We ain’t getting it back. Our money was spent on absolute nonsense.
I’m sure that the requirements for the name changes were that everything with the previous name on it was destroyed, meaning that with the change back, non of it could be reused.
Has Ft Hood(lum) been back-named yet?
Yes.
“Fort Cavazos Officially Redesignated Fort Hood, Officials On Post Confirm”
https://www.kwtx.com/2025/06/17/fort-cavazos-redesignated-fort-hood/
“Fort Cavazos has officially been renamed Fort Hood less than a week since President Trump announced he planned to revert name changes implemented at military posts by the Biden administration.”
“The installation on June 16 confirmed what Army officials in Washington had already revealed: the name Fort Hood will not be in honor of the Confederate general, rather, in honor of Distinguished Service Cross recipient, Col. Robert B. Hood, for his heroism in World War I.”
“Col. Hood received the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions in battle.”
“Amid intense shelling near Thiaucourt, France, then-Captain Hood directed artillery fire under enfilading machine-gun fire. After his gun crew was lost to enemy fire, he rapidly reorganized and returned fire within minutes, restoring combat capability,” post officials said when describing Col. Hood’s heroic actions.”
“The U.S. Army confirmed it received formal orders to make the name change on all signage, digital platforms and official materials.”
“An official name change ceremony will be held at a later date.”
“Who Is Robert B. Hood? | Who Fort Hood Is Being Renamed After”
https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/national/military-news/robert-b-hood-who-fort-hood-being-renamed-after/500-7fde8ae2-ed58-4a35-b7c6-ac872f3837b2
“So who is Robert B. Hood? According to the U.S. Army, Col. Robert B. Hood served in World War I, earning the Distinguished Service Cross during his service.”
“Hood was born in Wellington, Kansas on April 8, 1891, graduating from Kansas State Agricultural College in 1914 with a degree in horticulture, according to the Army.”
“Hood reportedly received a commission in the regular Army on Aug. 8, 1917, shipping to France with the 12th Field Artillery. Hood was promoted to Captain on July 10, 1918.”
“While acting as executive officer of Battery E, 12th Field Artillery, 2nd Division, near Thiaucourt, France, the Army said Hood “brought the battery into action under fire, superintended the placing of guns and the unloading of ammunition and directed the fire of the battery under an intense enfilading fire.”
After the entire gun crew of his first piece was wiped out by enemy fire, Hood reportedly formed a supplementary gun squad and succeeded in getting the first piece into action again within four minutes. For his actions, Hood was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.”
“In 1919, Hood returned home as commander of Supply Company, 12th Field Artillery, 2nd Division, the Army stated. After the war, he reportedly married Hazel McMinn and had two daughters.”
“According to the Army, Hood and his family survived the Pearl Harbor attack while stationed at Schofield Barracks. Hood reportedly rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel during World War II and commanded an Artillery Training Unit at Fort Sill.”
“Hood retired from the Army in 1961 as a colonel, and died at the age of 73 on Oct. 12, 1964, the Army stated.”
You mean Fort [the] Hood?
Happy to say that the words “Fort Cavazos (et al.)” have never exited my lips in that order.
“Tha Hood”, however…
The same… and (sadly) it’s made the news by name (speak o’ the Devil… ) in a bad way again– SGM charged with child sex abuse (a second time) there:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fort-hood-senior-noncommissioned-officer-205749162.html
I’m just glad everyone is having fun judging better men than they using today’s logic and morals.
In a just world, Benning would’ve been named Andersonville and Drum Elmira.
A lot of atrocity committed that was novel and repugnant even then, jussayn.
Slackers.
Eisenhower probably “let” 400,000 German POWs die of starvation and privation, AFTER the war. Some estimates put the numbers at over a million.
War is hell.*
*the best approximation by Man
Hold my beer while I explain the clutching of pearls and getting the vapors over the name of an Air Force Base. I was explaining to the civilian I was sending the equipment to Seymour Johnson AFB. She informed me, with a “Well, I’ve never” gasp, no one uses such language in her presence. I said that’s the name of the place, named after USN LT Seymour Johnson. Apparently, see was convinced I said see more johnsons.
What day is it?
If it were Saturday it would be SPOTW. But just like some people cant wait for Christmas, why should we have to wait to enjoy the foibles of the infirm who are geniuses in their own minds?
Master plan:
Mom of 3 ‘abducted’ by ‘bounty hunters’ in South LA charged with faking her own kidnapping: DOJ
https://www.foxla.com/news/south-la-mom-charged-fake-ice-kidnapping-hoax