Anonymous ID: 466739 May 24, 2022, 3:32 p.m. No.16334851   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4866 >>4961

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WRAL) - The list of potential new names for the nine Army bases currently named for Confederate generals, including Fort Bragg, has been narrowed down to 100 choices, according to WRAL.

 

https://www.wect.com/2022/03/17/possible-names-released-9-military-bases-that-must-be-rena

 

Fort Bragg is named for Gen. Braxton Bragg, who served in the Confederate army and owned a plantation where people were enslaved.

 

Last year, Congress voted to mandate that military installations named after Confederate figures or sympathizers by renamed by 2023. The other bases that will be renamed included:

Camp Beauregard, La.

Fort Benning, Ga.

Fort Gordon, Ga.

Fort Hood, Texas

Fort A.P. Hill, Va.

Fort Lee, Va.

Fort Pickett, Va.

Fort Polk, La.

Fort Rucker, Ala.