Posted on 10/27/2023 10:54:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
POLITICS U.S. military finishes renaming bases that previously honored Confederates BY ELEANOR WATSON
UPDATED ON: OCTOBER 27, 2023 / 1:43 PM / CBS NEWS
The Army has finished renaming nine installations that previously honored confederate generals with the redesignation Friday of Fort Gordon in Georgia to Fort Eisenhower.
The Defense Department has until the end of the year to complete the recommendations of the congressionally mandated Naming Commission. The Naming Commission was tasked with identifying items in the U.S. military named after figures from the confederacy.
The commission's final recommendations included renaming nine installations across the country named after Confederate generals.
Fort Gordon, in Augusta, Georgia, is the last installation to receive its new name. The redesignation to Fort Eisenhower took place in an official ceremony Friday morning.
Fort Gordon was named for Major Gen. John Gordon, who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and was considered one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals. After the Civil War, he served as a U.S. senator and governor of Georgia.
The new name honors President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who also led the D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War II as an Army five-star general.
In its recommendation for the new name, the Naming Commission said, "Eisenhower's extensive military experience as a combined and allied commander, and as a U.S. President symbolizes the professionalism, excellence, and joint nature of the base's mission."
The installation is the home of the U.S. Army's Signal Corps, Cyber Command, and Cyber Center of Excellence.
It is also where Eisenhower delivered his farewell remarks to the U.S. military after departing the presidency and retiring from national service in 1961, according to the Naming Commission.
These are the other eight installations that have received new names:
Fort Benning, Georgia – renamed Fort Moore after Lt. Gen. Hal and Julia Moore.
Fort Bragg, North Carolina – renamed Fort Liberty after the value of liberty.
Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. – renamed Fort Walker after Dr. Mary Walker.
Fort Hood, Texas – renamed Fort Cavazos after Gen. Richard Cavazos.
Fort Lee, Virginia – renamed Fort Gregg-Adams after Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams.
Fort Pickett, Virginia – renamed Fort Barfoot after Tech. Sgt. Van T. Barfoot.
Fort Polk, Louisiana. – renamed Fort Johnson after Sgt. William Henry Johnson.
Fort Rucker, Alabama – renamed Fort Novosel after Chief Warrant Officer 4 Michael J. Novosel, Sr.
In addition to renaming the nine installations, the Naming Commission recommended renaming hundreds of other items, including streets and buildings on military installations.
The Army, the service branch with the most items to rename or remove, has redesignated all existing streets that were named for individuals who voluntarily served the Confederate States of America, according to an Army spokesperson. The U.S. The Postal Service updated its systems to ensure mail delivery won't be disrupted.
By Jan. 1, 2024, the Army plans to complete its re-designations of these buildings and other real property assets.
The Naming Commission estimated it would cost about $62.5 million to implement all of its recommendations across the military.
This is exactly right.
The above said, I'm glad slavery was ended. It was a horrid institution.
Agree here, but it would have atrophied away without a war, it would have just took longer. 750,000 men would not have had to die, and the US Government wouldn't have become such a leviathan.
One of the worst things the Civil War did was to increase the power of the corrupt denizens in Washington DC.
...it was and is now and will forever be Fort Lee, Virginia....and the same for Fort Hood, Texas....screw these people....no one is ever going to remember that it is now Fort Garbanzos or whatever in hell it is now in Texas....
US Black troops didn’t die for their freedom?
Americans who didn’t fight in the Revolution shouldn’t have become independent?
You are correct, I recommend “Empire of the Air” to any one interested in the wars between Inventors of radio and transmission of information including the greatest of all I think was Armstrong.
Fort Faggot...named after a bundle of sticks...of course.
Very few of them even existed.
The overwhelming majority of freed slaves simply had freedom handed to them. They didn't know what to do with it, and too many of their descendants still don't. They still think like slaves.
I know that contradicts The Narrative. BFD. Truth often contradicts The Narrative.
The Naming Commission estimated it would cost about $62.5 million to implement all of its recommendations across the military.
Only under a democrat president could that type of squandering be allowed.
It will ALWAYS be Fort Hood to me and my family ...
Straight from the mind of Satan.
This is what he has been doing all along since his rebellion began.
His followers listen well.
The Confederates were traitors. We didn't need to be romantic with the CSA. That phase is over with.
We should celebrate American heroes. I prefer Generals. Lower rank soldiers, we can name smaller installations after them. Just my two cents.
Thanks to LBJ's Great Dociety.
Are these assholes going to issue revised DD Form 214 to 13 million Vets?
F’em.
5.56mm
The free Black population of the country was about 480,000 in 1860. Many of the troops had been slaves in 1860, but it does look like a goodly share of those African-Americans who were in a position to volunteer did.
They still think like slaves.
True of many around the world, and increasingly true of many in the US.
Maybe my AR Sen Tom Cotton who agreed with this crap should be made to change his family name since cotton indicates racism.
How about Sen Smith? Oh wait. We must do a search to make sure there were no Smiths from the Confederacy. What stupidity!!!!!
Now that the wokes have reformed the military trust that our defense problems are solved.
Disgraceful
Staying with the old names; and same, for some sports teams.
Cleveland Indians - “the Tribe”
Washington DC is named after a slaveholder.
The only possible solution is to shut down .gov permanently—anything else is enshrining slavery forever.
;-)
On your point of reconciliation I can agree.
I still remain ardently opposed to the Confederacy and what it stood for. My ancestor served the Union.
But again in the interest of reconciliation and ‘’binding up the nations wounds’’ the names of those forts should have been left as they were.
Irony abounds.
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