Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has hinted he would like to change the name of Fort Moore back to Fort Benning.

On his first day in the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth referred to Georgia's Fort Moore by its original name, Fort ...

Fort Bragg is one of nine major Army bases that initially bore the names of Confederate leaders. Their names were changed in ...

Georgia U.S. Army post Fort Moore has had its current name for less than two years. Before that, it held the name Fort ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had referred to Fort Benning and Fort Bragg by their original, Confederate-inspired names.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base back to ...

He said he deliberately referred to Bragg and Fort Benning — the Army base in Columbus, Georgia, which is now called Fort Moore — as he entered the Pentagon on his first day. “There are ...

But it’s not just Bragg and Benning. There are a lot of other ... whose names are now used for the bases. The former Fort Gordon in Georgia, for example, was renamed Fort Eisenhower to ...

Hegseth referred to Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, a Georgia base renamed Fort Moore, pointedly using their original Confederate namesakes. In a podcast interview last year, Hegseth said ...

Danny Powell hadn’t heard of the defense secretary’s decision to change the name of North Carolina’s largest military base back to Fort Bragg.