During his re-election campaign, President Trump made it clear that he did not support Joe Biden's renaming America's military outposts in a campaign to remove symbols of the Confederacy from public spaces. Trump criticized the changes as “woke” and vowed to restore the original names.
Now, with a new president in the White House and a new cabinet, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that North Carolina's Fort Liberty will be once again be called Fort Bragg. He also announced Georgia's Fort Moore will return to its former name, Fort Benning.
Despite the name changes, the Trump administration is not revering the long-dead Confederate generals. Instead, the Pentagon found two decorated soldiers, World War II paratrooper PFC Roland Bragg and World War 1 soldier Corporal Fred Benning, to revert to the original names of the two famous bases.
Bob Maginnis, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, tells AFN the Biden administration squandered time and resources on renaming bases rather than working on more vital, pressing issues.
“I think it was poor judgment but they demonstrated poor judgment consistently,” Maginnis, referring to the Biden administration, says.
