Posted on Sep 8, 2021
What suggestions do you have for renaming DoD installations honoring Confederate officers?
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Doesn't matter if you agree with this move or not - it's been directed and it's happening. What are your suggestions for renaming the following bases?
- Fort Bragg
- Fort Rucker
- Fort Benning
- Fort Gordon
- Fort Hood
- Fort Polk
- Fort A.P. Hill
- Fort Belvoir
- Fort Lee
- Fort Pickett
- Fort Bragg
- Fort Rucker
- Fort Benning
- Fort Gordon
- Fort Hood
- Fort Polk
- Fort A.P. Hill
- Fort Belvoir
- Fort Lee
- Fort Pickett
Civil War
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I don't have specific suggestions other than perhaps name them after Medal of Honor recipients.
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Rename them after Congressional Medal of Honor recipients (if possible the highest ranking one that earned while assigned to that base, Ex: FT Bragg - figure out the highest ranking CMH person that earned it while either SF or 82nd Airborne). If the base had no CMH recipients, just take them from the runners-up from other bases.
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Fort Arnold was stripped of its name and referred to by its location in West Point, NY cause it was considered bad luck to rename it. Perhaps that should be done here.
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Name all for its hsot - Home of XYZ - (82nd airborne, Airborne Rangers, Army Aviation, Army Signal corps etc
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MAJ Charles Mangels
Don't use names - use the Host unit - HOME OF 82ND AIRBORNE, AIRORNE RANGERS, SIGNAL CORPS, ARMY AVIATION
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All political correctness considerations aside (as far aside as possible!), it always seemed wrong to me to name bases after officers who took arms against the United States of America, and I'm saying this as a person who had several ancestors fight for the losing side in the Civil War (and on the winning side too).
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