Return of Fort Hood
Monday ceremony marks official restoration of Killeen army post’s name back to Fort Hood
by: Abigail Jones
AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Army post in Killeen, Texas, was renamed again, for the second time in as many years. A ceremony held on Monday marked the official redesignation of the post to Fort Hood.
In May 2023, what was originally Fort Hood — initially named after Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood — was renamed Fort Cavazos, in honor of General Richard Edward Cavazos, a native Texan, war hero and Medal of Honor recipient.
The post is now once again Fort Hood, the name now honoring World War I hero, Col. Robert Benjamin Hood. According to the Army, Col. Hood received the Distinguished Service Cross for his “extraordinary heroism” during WWI during an “intense shelling” near Thiaucourt, France.
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The colonel’s daughter, Mitzi Huffman, attended the ceremony Monday and said the redesignation in her father’s name is “overwhelming.”
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According to the Army, Hood was born April 8, 1891, in Wellington, Kansas. He graduated from Kansas State Agricultural College, now Kansas State University, in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1914.Hood was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army on Aug. 8, 1917, and served with Echo Battery, 12th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. Hood was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions under fire on Sept. 12, 1918, in France during WWI, according to a press release from the Army.
“During a firefight, then-Capt. Hood ‘displayed extraordinary courage and tactical brilliance as he expertly maneuvered his artillery battery under a barrage of heavy and persistent enemy fire,’” the Army release said, citing the award narrative.
Hood later survived the Pearl Harbor attack while stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and eventually commanded an artillery training unit at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, during World War II.
After 44 years of service, he retired in 1961 as a colonel. Hood died Oct. 12, 1964, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, located in Arlington, Virginia, according to the Army.
Ships re-commissioned, base names reverting to original. Sanity has broken out. What’s next, removing the St. George of Fentanyl statues?
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Well, here we are again:
Millions of dollars later, after a cavalcade of buffoonery, we’ve circled around to the solution which definitely could have, and (debatably) should have, been done for free. I guess, when woke efforts combine with fiscal lunacy, nobody cared about the easy button.
The Army preaches “Work smarter, not harder”. Then refuses to do it.
yeah… um
He’s just resting after a prolonged whinny.
Is the horse a Norwegian Blue?
Pining for the fjords.
So they are still shitting on our military history that hurts the feelings of indoctrinated retards.Just pretending it’s named after some other Hood. Such nonsense…
Um,,, can you elaborate? Not sure exactly, where you’re at on this.