Posted on 03/03/2025 1:03:44 PM PST by hardspunned
The Pentagon announced Monday that Fort Moore, formerly named Fort Benning for a Confederate general, will again be named Fort Benning, although it will now honor a different Benning.
Defense Secretary Hegseth in a statement said the base will now honor Cpl. Fred G. Benning, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his extraordinary heroism in action during World War I, when he served in the U.S. Army in France in 1918. Benning died in 1974. The base was originally named for Lt. Gen. Henry Benning, a Confederate general and Southern secessionist who opposed freeing slaves.
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Well, there’s always Robin Hood. Oh, wait. He’s a Brit.
No kidding. The outskirts of Ft. Benning and Ft. Sill are dangerous places.
A half step in the right direction. But the original names were given in a spirit of reconciliation that no longer exists.
Ha!
Changing the names of Army posts is expensive and not needed.
More BS govt spending that didn’t need to be done.
Next could be Ft Lee to be named after Revolutionary War hero Richard Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee. Ft Pickett could be named after every soldier who ever stood guard duty. Ft Polk after president James K Polk, others could be worked up too.
bttt
I’m glad that they found a more worthy man named Benning to name the fort after, although renaming it after Gen Hal Moore was the only change that I thought made sense. Hopefully there will be a new Army fort or camp that will be named after him in the future.
ā Naming Southern bases after Confederates helped people remember where they were.ā
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And also helped to FOSTER NATIONAL RECONCILIATION after a LONG AND BLOODY CIVIL WAR.
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Great song
It’s a shame what her life was like
GREAT!!! Now give us back Fort Hood!!!
Awesome.
“My bases Keesler, Minot, Anderson, McClellan.”
Mine were Lackland, Keesler, Langley, Westover, Tempelhof, and Kelly. Wait until some filthy democrat politician wants to change those.
It’s Benning once moore.
I left out Lackland as that was BMT. doesn’t really count as a PCS for me.
Shame on our generals that were fired.
I hear you. I went through 3 months of OTS there in 1963 then TDY for 5 weeks during Operation Homecoming so I counted it. So can you by the way.
Still trying to please everyone. Still letting the liberals get away with their sh*t.
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