6 Army bases named after Confederate leaders get dates for new names

Axios ^ | March 25, 2023 | Herb Scribner

[ConservativeInPA]

Several U.S. Army bases will officially get their new names in the coming months as the military seeks to redesignate bases that currently honor Confederate leaders.

Driving the news: Fort Hood, the major Army base in central Texas, will be redesignated as Fort Cavazos on May 9, the base announced Friday.

The new name honors Gen. Richard Cavazos, the first Latino four-star general and first Latino brigadier general. The base is currently named for John Bell Hood, a Confederate general.

Fort Pickett in Virginia was renamed Fort Barfoot on Friday.

[moovova]

"30 out of 1000. That’s 3%"

Yeah, and I remember when's gays said all they wanted was to be left alone to do what they wanted to do BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

How's that working out today?

[17th Miss Regt]

They are already renaming places, anyplace with an American Indian name is getting replaced

The real dividing line is the People's Revolutionary Ardor River (formerly the Mississippi River) end its major tributatry the Proletarian Consciousness River (formerly the Missouri River.

[Arkansas Tider]

How many times can you draw the short straw? Only thing worse could be Polk or Irwin for that amount of time.

[BlackbirdSST]

It will always be Fort Benning to me, that’s where I got my wings.

...And Bragg will always be Bragg. f'em

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

SO JUST WHEN do we change all the HUNDREDS of places named after that HERO OF THE KKK, Senator Robert Sheets Bird?
Hmmmmmmmmm?

[Red in Blue PA]

This is idiotic beyond belief.

[gathersnomoss]

Name them after Skittle colors....
A-HOLES!!!!!!!

[Texas resident]

Communist China and Russia did their best to erase their past history. Chairman Joe is doing the same thing on orders from China.

[38special]

This angers me 😬

[jeffersondem]

“I doubt if it improves military recruiting which is at all-time lows.”

The cities of New Orleans and Baltimore - to name just two - took down Confederate monuments and immediately moved up several notches on the crime/murder index.

It will probably be a confusing thing in the future to determine if the base renaming fiasco was what caused the decline of the U.S. military or if it was the larger Biden effect.

[goodnesswins]

Hhmmm...Oregon is full of “Hood” names...

[Jim Noble]

The decision to reunify the nation and to welcome back the Wayward Sisters with their pride and their symbols intact was one of the wisest and most generous acts of statecraft in the history of warfare.

The decision to undo all that is one of the stupidest and mean-spirited in the history of nations.

[oldvirginian]

“That’s the irony of it all. The guys who did the fighting were OK with naming installations after Confederates.”

Immediately after the cessation of hostilities at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, officers from both armies crossed the lines to visit with former classmates from West Point or men who they had served with prior to the war.
One hundred and fifty eight years later and some people still want to use that period to raise a ruckus.
I notice they haven’t considered changing the names of bases named for Union Officers?
Probably saving those for names of tranny’s and other flavors of faggotry.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I hope President Trump brings back the original names.

[golux]

“Stop fighting,”

say tyrants, still.

[stylin19a]

happened in 2019... and some bigguns in that photo... wonder where they are at now ?

2nd LT. Gabrielle Alford - S.Korea
Lt. Marina Camacho - D.C.
Noah Carlen - studiying in UK University of Leicester - no mention of currently being in the army.

[golux]

https://www.wnd.com/2010/09/209597/

And, to no small degree, it is you who are now enslaved.....

[eyedigress]

Fort Whoopi

[Blood of Tyrants]

They will outlaw even the mention of anything to do with the Confederacy.

[Rob_Henry]

Second Lieutenant Barfoot's official Medal of Honor citation reads:

Lt. Van Thomas Barfoot (right) after being awarded the Medal of Honor by Lt. General Alexander Patch on 22 September 1944 in Epinal, France. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty on 23 May 1944, near Carano, Italy. With his platoon heavily engaged during an assault against forces well entrenched on commanding ground, 2d Lt. Barfoot (then Tech. Sgt.) moved off alone upon the enemy left flank. He crawled to the proximity of 1 machinegun nest and made a direct hit on it with a hand grenade, killing 2 and wounding 3 Germans. He continued along the German defense line to another machinegun emplacement, and with his tommygun killed 2 and captured 3 soldiers. Members of another enemy machinegun crew then abandoned their position and gave themselves up to Sgt. Barfoot. Leaving the prisoners for his support squad to pick up, he proceeded to mop up positions in the immediate area, capturing more prisoners and bringing his total count to 17. Later that day, after he had reorganized his men and consolidated the newly captured ground, the enemy launched a fierce armored counterattack directly at his platoon positions. Securing a bazooka, Sgt. Barfoot took up an exposed position directly in front of 3 advancing Mark VI tanks. From a distance of 75 yards his first shot destroyed the track of the leading tank, effectively disabling it, while the other 2 changed direction toward the flank. As the crew of the disabled tank dismounted, Sgt. Barfoot killed 3 of them with his tommygun. He continued onward into enemy terrain and destroyed a recently abandoned German fieldpiece with a demolition charge placed in the breech. While returning to his platoon position, Sgt. Barfoot, though greatly fatigued by his Herculean efforts, assisted 2 of his seriously wounded men 1,700 yards to a position of safety. Sgt. Barfoot's extraordinary heroism, demonstration of magnificent valor, and aggressive determination in the face of pointblank fire are a perpetual inspiration to his fellow soldiers.