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Fort Liberty renamed Fort Bragg

Raleigh News & Observer · 7h

Fort Liberty will be Fort Bragg again. But there’s a twist to the controversial name

Bragg is back,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said after signing a memorandum on the name change Monday night.

The Associated Press on MSN · 23h

Fort Liberty May Become Fort Bragg Again, but Named After a Different Soldier

North Carolina state Rep. John Blust, a Greensboro Republican who served as an enlisted soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division at the installation in the 1970s, said he was “tickled pink” about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's action Monday to restore the name Bragg to what is currently Fort Liberty.

UPI News on MSN · 1d

Hegseth restores Fort Liberty's name back to Fort Bragg to honor WWII hero

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday signed an order to rename Fort Liberty in North Carolina back to its original Fort Bragg. But this time Bragg will honor a World War II hero instead of a Confederate general.

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Hegseth renames North Carolina military base back to Fort Roland L. Bragg

The base was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 as part of a national effort to remove names that honored Confederate leaders.

In reinstating the name of Fort Bragg, the Army hopes to skirt a ban on Confederate namesakes

The base, known as Fort Liberty since 2023, originally was named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg. The Army says it now ...

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