While flying from Joint Base Andrews to Stuttgart on Monday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum renaming Fort Liberty in North Carolina to Fort Roland L. Bragg.
The new name pays tribute to Private First Class Roland L. Bragg, a World War II hero who earned the Silver Star and Purple Heart for his exceptional courage during the Battle of the Bulge.
“This change underscores the installation’s legacy of recognizing those who have demonstrated extraordinary service and sacrifice for the nation,” said Defense Press Secretary John Ullyot.
Under the presidency of Joe Biden, many names of forts were changed. Fort Bragg was changed to Fort Liberty, because the original Braxton Bragg was a flawed human being and a Confederate Army war hero.
Former Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin renamed Fort Bragg into Fort Liberty in June of 2023, after a 2021 congressional commission had recommended the name be changed. The name-changing frenzy was all in reaction to the death of violence-prone wife-beater and drug abuser George Floyd in 2020, which sparked riots across America’s major cities.
“All this changed in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. Many people protested systemic racism and pointed to Confederate statues and bases as part of that system. Congress established the commission in the National Defense Authorization Act of fiscal 2021. Then-President Donald J. Trump vetoed the legislation because of the presence of the commission, and huge bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress overrode his veto,” the Defense Department said in 2023.
Now, Fort Bragg is named after a mere private who shared the last name of Bragg but who was not in the Civil War.
The cost of renaming the nine forts that underwent the George Floyd process during the Biden Administration was $39 million.
Do you suppose they’ll re-install the Great Honorable Statues, recently taken down, in order to fulfill DEI and Political Correctness? A worthy and rightful endeavor.
Removing “Liberty” from the name right on-brand for MAGA types. Glad to see that Hegseth is already addressing the most pressing military issues on his plate.
After the last four years it sure is a welcome revelation to have leaders who can do more than one thing at a time. Unfortunately the bar was lowered so low during the Obama/Biden/Harris administration that some folk forgot that there are capable human beings.
dog you need help, get some ASAP
Thank you Pete Hegseth for removing this left-wing nut-ness!
Again, Whidbey, your every trollish comment here — and yes, you are by definition a classic internet troll — is reflective and indicative of the anti-freedom, pro-authoritarian radical leftist conformist mindset.
I honestly wonder how miserable a person you must be, to troll an online forum that is antithetical to your every crazy, mixed-up and misguided political opinion. That is just plain sad.
Jeff,
I wholly disagree. Over the years you’ve stated that you aren’t a conservative and you aren’t a Republican and yet you comment on a conservative leaning site that largely supports Republicans. If those of us who are on the right simply want to enter into an echo-chamber and hear the voices of only those with which we agree then we will be worse off for having done so.
Whidbey, with all his mistaken beliefs and thoughts, at the very least is able to express those thoughts without resorting to berating those he disagrees with the same tired insults ad nauseam. I wish I could say I’m glad to see that somethings never change, but I’d hoped in your extended absence you might have thought about trying a different tack to express yourself.
Just stop it already.
If you’re not changing it back to Bragg to honor Lincoln’s wishes, just leave it.
If you’re not going to make it right, stop spending our money on non serious things.
Not renaming the base for Baxton Bragg was virtue signaling.
So how much is the name change going to cost and will Doge contemplate the expense?
The Left never worried about the cost of changing the name when THEY do it. But when it is changed back, THEN they become instant fiscal conservatives, and call this tit-for-tat game “trivial”. Why wasn’t it trivial when they changed it?
And I bet Whidbey served his country from the safety of his mother’s basement while rolling a doobey or taking a hit of acid. Or, in line picking up food stamps and unemployment checks while stopping at the package store for a bottle of tequila. Typical sounding libtard who hates America, hates successful people, and generally an angry old pos who finds life miserable.
Let’s be clear. The vast majority of soldiers in the Confederacy were not fighting to keep slavery. Rather, they had no clue as to the politics of the war and were simply answering the call as their State militias. In that time, people still thought of themselves primarily as citizens of the states; the federal government was seen only as an alliance of the states. As to Braxton Bragg being “a flawed human being,” there has only ever been one flawless human being since the beginning of the world.