Today Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum renaming Fort Moore in Georgia to Fort Benning. The new name pays tribute to Corporal (CPL) Fred G. Benning, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his extraordinary heroism in action during World War I with the U.S. Army in France in 1918. This change underscores the installation’s storied history of service to the United States of America, honors the warfighter ethos, and recognizes the heroes who have trained at the installation for decades and will continue to train on its storied ranges.
Really gay way to do it, but, until the DOD renames itself to the War Department things will still be mentally soft and gay.
Well, I think its clever. Yep, cheesy but clever.
“War Dept.’ won’t happen with the current NCA. The CINC wants “peace” and he doesn’t GARA who he has to destroy to get it.
In that context, I’m not sure who is worse 45/47 or Neville Chamberlin.
I guess will have to see how events play. It’s not looking good for the people wearing blue & gold though.
@CAPT Jake
Neville Chamberlain was a saint and hero compared to the arch evil villain of WW2. He could’ve prevented a needless second European Brother war. The Ukes chose their sleeping arrangement by trying to go NATO. Hopefully the last country to attempt such a dreadfully dumb move. NATO needs to die yesterday.
More performative political theater from a wholly unqualified SecDef. This is not only a huge waste of money, but it also denigrates the sacrifice and service of the Moore military family. Truly beyond shameful.
@ SGT Rock How does it denigrate the Moore family?
At least we have a SecDef that can do PT and can say how many genders there are. Also SecDef Hegseth won’t be so dumb as to fire an M4 with a scope mounted on backwards. How many dumb things have senior command (generals and admirals) said and done. We won’t here SecDef Hegseth say something stupid like “full-semi-automatic”
Bragg was the only one people cared about, and it could have been anything but Liberty. Benning was at least renamed for the Moore Family.
It’s like these retards are reading memes and comments on social media and letting it guide policy, it’s the ultimate populist idiocracy agenda. Can we stop the contrarian political crap? This just feeds the fire of division.
For the love of God, please don’t change Polk back, no one needs that kind of BS in their lives.
Righting a wrong, and people want to keep the status quo. The base was named what it was. The DEI tards went full French Revolution Jacobin/Marxist and attempted to wipe out history.
No one had a problem with it since 1818. No one bought into the renaming initiative (which wasted a lot of time, money, and resources), and demanding people stop referring to it by the name it’s always been and call it something else is like copying pages out of Orwell’s 1984 and calling it policy. Hiding history, good or bad, is a sure way to end up repeating it.
GT556,
You are peddling ahistorical and amoral nonsense. So is Joe K. All of those Confederate generals you are trying to justify venerating were traitors. Not because I say so, but because the Constitution of the United States says so. In black letter law. These bases should have never been named for those treasonous people in the first place.
Removing those original names was not “erasing history” in any way, shape, or form. But rather correcting a grievous historical mistake. Benning’s original namesake and Braxton Bragg will always be minor, dishonorable, footnotes in the Nation’s history. And that is all they ever deserved to be.
Despite your short memory, people of conscience have had problems with Confederate names all of those years and there were many previous attempts to get one or more of them renamed and replaced by any of countless worthy American heroes like Hal Moore. And if all you have is “that is the way it has always been,” and “that is what I am used to calling these places,” then your arguments are unconvincing and super weak.
Finally, yes, I for one, “bought into” the renaming initiative. It should not have taken this country so long to correct that obvious wrong in the first place. With all due respect to CPL Benning, Hal Moore’s 32+ years of service, valor, and sacrifice deserved better. He never failed us, but we have failed him. That is nothing to be self-righteous about.
TLB
Lincoln gave ever confederate soldier full amnesty at the end of the Civil War. So to Lincoln, they weren’t traitors. Here’s a link. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-issues-proclamation-of-amnesty-and-reconstruction
Mike,
Amnesty, or a pardon, is given as a remission for crimes that have been committed. In this case, treason. However, an amnesty or pardon does not involve willful amnesia and does NOT serve to erase the original crime. Lincoln’s amnesty reflected his willingness to prioritize reconciliation over retribution. But, as your link shows, it specifically did not include the most senior of the Confederate political and military leaders. It also demanded an oath of allegiance to the US from all those pardoned. So, I think it is a reach to say that Lincoln did not consider men like Bragg and Benning traitors. Otherwise, why did he exclude them from the Amnesty?
TLB
Either way Fort Bragg isn’t name after General Bragg. It’s named after this Bragg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_L._Bragg
2020 was a year of “feel good” name changing. I personally feel that the community’s should have voted on a name change, or not.
Mike,
Yes, I know. Fort Bragg is no longer named after the original General Bragg. The new name (PFC Roland L. Bragg) was just introduced in the last few weeks and has nothing to do with my comments about the Confederate Generals Bragg and Benning; or likewise, Polk, or Hood, or Rucker, etc.
For your information, the closest communities, like Columbus, Georgia, were indeed heavily involved in the renaming process, which went on for months with multiple open public hearings. Hal Moore was well known in the Columbus area and, as I understand it, his name was one of those recommended early in the process by local civic leaders and the Moore family for consideration.
And, unlike the less well received “For Liberty” choice, it was not even controversial. Sure, a handful of people bitched about it on the internet. Because that is what we do now instead of doing anything meaningful. Still, nobody came to Columbus to publicly protest or lobby their congressional leadership to seek redress of their “grievance” about the name change. Nobody. Just performative and largely anonymous virtual bitching.
Sadly, the reality is, the American people do not care what you or I or anyone else commenting here thinks about these base name changes one way or the other. The vast majority barely know these bases exist – let alone what their names are or were – unless they live in an adjacent community or are part of the statistically small subset of Americans who served on the post(s).
Still, I would be willing to bet that if I told them that Hal Moore was the character played by Mel Gibson in the “We were Soldiers” movie they would all say that he is exactly the kind of exemplary leader and professional role model that a US Army Base should be named after.
TLB
Fort Moore is no more, and the Fort Moore fans—who never even crashed a cot there—will probably whine about it. Those here upset are bots most likely or just entered the Army and don’t know of Benning’s legacy, they don’t get the raw history of warfighters who’ve forged generations of grit which will now live on again. It never was not about who its named after but what its commonly known as for generations.