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Fort Liberty now Fort Bragg. What's the history behind the name and Hegseth's decision?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 ...
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum Monday declaring the Army would rename Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. Hegseth posted video of him signing the ...
"Even after the last administration 'changed the name,' current and former members of the military continually referred to the fort as 'Ft. Bragg' - and rightfully so. "Honoring the World War II ...
For more than a century, North Carolina's Fort Bragg honored Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg. In 2023, it was changed to Fort Liberty by a congressionally mandated commission to rename nine bases ...
The base had been known as Fort Bragg, named after a Confederate general who owned enslaved people. Then in 2023, the Defense Department renamed it. But several weeks after Mr. Samuels’s ...
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The short-lived existence of Fort Liberty came to an end Friday when the nation’s largest Army installation officially returned to its former name: Fort Bragg. Christened a ...
With cannon fire and a rendition of "The Caisson Song," Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was officially rededicated to its original name, now honoring a World War II hero instead of an Army officer ...
A Fort Bragg soldier is facing felony charges Tuesday after authorities in Aberdeen said he tried soliciting a minor weeks earlier. Dustin Goodroe, 20, is charged with soliciting sex from a minor ...
An attendee takes a photo of the sign that was unveiled when Fort Liberty was rededicated as Fort Bragg during a ceremony on base, Friday, March 7, 2025, (AP Photo/Chris Seward) ...
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