Trump’s renaming spree continues as Hegseth refers to Fort Liberty as ‘Fort Bragg’

Tuesday 28 January 2025 01:55 EST Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth marked his first day on the job by hinting that military bases renamed under the Biden administration because they referenced Confederate officers would revert to their original names. “Every moment that I’m here, I’m thinking about the guys and gals in Guam, in Germany, in Fort Benning and Fort Bragg, on missile defense sites and aircraft carriers,” Hegseth told reporters as he arrived at the Pentagon on Monday morning. “Our job is lethality and readiness and warfighting.” During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged that he would revert nine southern Army posts that were initially named after officers who fought for the South in the Civil War back to their original monikers. While the switch happened in 2023, under former President Joe Biden’s watch, the effort to rid the bases of their Confederate-linked names began during Trump’s first term in office amid a nationwide racial reckoning following George Floyd’s 2020 murder.