The US Army is now open to renaming its military bases

AtomicPiss

https://businessinsider.com/military-bases-named-after-confederate-leaders-2020-6?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+businessinsider%252Fpolitics+%2528Business+Insider+-+Politix%2529

PurpleThrobber

You mean the military bases named after Confederate generals during racially tolerant Democratic administrations?

Camp Bragg was established in 1918 as an artillery training ground. The Chief of Field Artillery, General William J. Snow, was seeking an area having suitable terrain, adequate water, rail facilities, and a climate suitable for year-round training, and he decided that the area now known as Fort Bragg met all of the desired criteria.[5] Camp Bragg was named to honor a native North Carolinian, Braxton Bragg, who commanded Confederate States Army forces in the Civil War.

Fort A.P. Hill, located near Bowling Green, Virginia, was established June 11, 1941 as a training installation, a role it still serves today.

Fort Lee was established as Camp Lee in 1917, but the original site was dismantled after the end of World War I. It was re-established during World War II and in 1950, was formally renamed Fort Lee.

It was established as Camp Pickett on July 3, 1942

Fort Gordon was established as Camp Gordon in Georgia during World War II.

Brig. Gen. Henry Benning was "an outstanding lawyer-turned-soldier from Columbus," and the base honoring him was originally founded October 7, 1918, according to the Army.

Fort Rucker, an Army Aviation training base in Alabama, was established May 1, 1942

In 1917, the U.S. entered World War I. When the U.S. War Department announced that it was developing sixteen cantonments for war training, Louisiana politicians and businessmen successfully lobbied for CP Stafford. It was renamed after the famous Louisiana Confederate General, Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard.

Fort Polk began as a base for the Louisiana Maneuvers in the 1940s.

Fort Hood opened in 1942 and is now the largest active-duty armored post in the US military, according to the Army.

Houhusky

Im confident you could ask 1000 people at random who Bragg or Hood are and I would be willing to put money on less than 3 not responding with; Who.gif

The obvious "solution" is to just rename them after where they are located and call it a day, like the air-force.

Any attempt to rename them after people, even heroic medal of honor winners, will have some noisy contingent complaining about their inevitable "problematic past" or how there aren't any forts named after openly gay women of color.

Bendintheriver

DerekJohnson said:

https://businessinsider.com/military-bases-named-after-confederate-leaders-2020-6?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+businessinsider%252Fpolitics+%2528Business+Insider+-+Politix%2529

Burn those books. Erase that history. Whitewash society and remake it in the liberal image.

I notice none of the protestors are demanding that the street in Atlanta named after the Jew hater Cynthia McKinney be renamed.