The Army paratrooper after whom Fort Liberty will regain the name Bragg was born June 11, 1923, in Sabbattus, Maine, to Calvin and Ella Stevens Bragg. Little is immediately known about Silver Star ...

In an Oct. 2024 campaign event in Fayetteville, N.C., Mr. Trump had pledged to change the name of Fort Bragg back from Fort Liberty. On Mr. Hegseth’s first day at the Pentagon, he referred to ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday directed the U.S. Army to change the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, but with a twist. Hegseth signed a memo aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 before ...

The original Fort Bragg was named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg. The renaming process involved a national commission and cost over $6 million. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a ...

Fort Liberty will officially be switched back to Fort Bragg. On Monday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum declaring the Army would rename the base from Fort Liberty back to ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to rename Fort Bragg appears to be his latest effort to roll back Biden-administration diversity policies for the military. On Monday, a memo from Hegseth ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Is it an honor or a cynical end run? When it comes to the former — and possibly future — Fort Bragg, that’s in the eye of the beholder. North Carolina state Rep.

Feb. 10 (UPI) --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 ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest bases, Fort Liberty, which replaced the namesake of a Confederate general in 2023. But in a ...

Fort Liberty, the Army’s largest post, is once again Fort Bragg but without the Confederate tie. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the base renamed Monday while en route to Stuttgart ...