Virginia’s Fort Lee Army base will be renamed after two Black officers ... enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1946. He was 17 years old. Lt. Gregg served in Germany as a medical laboratory technician ...

He’s drawn to the Black soldiers stationed at a nearby base and enlists in the Army at 17 years old ... for a Virginia Army fort once named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

They are reminders that this Thursday, the decades-old name of Fort ... dedicated their careers to Army service. More: Fort Lee officially gets its new name, Fort Gregg-Adams, next month Fort ...

Gregg at the Lee Club at Fort Lee, Virginia, shortly before the club ... Charity Adams and himself. (Ryan Sharp/Army) A 17-year-old Gregg left his native Florence, South Carolina, in 1946 to ...

A sign marks one of the entrances of the U.S. Army base Fort Lee in 2021 in Petersburg, Virginia. Virginia’s ... Gregg, who is 94 years old, will also be the only living person to have an ...

Arthur Gregg, a trailblazing officer who became the Army’s first Black three-star general in 1977 and for whom the former Fort Lee was renamed ... build a logistical base and provide logistical ...