Posted on Sep 8, 2021
SSG Carlos Madden
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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
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CPL Brian Parker
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Either leave them as they are or rename them after Medal of Honor winners. There is no other acceptable solution.
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PO2 Rich Adams
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I don’t think they should be renamed. Instead they could be turned into a learning moment. Gen. Braxton Bragg served with honor in the US Army but chose to fight with the military attempting (and failing) to protect a heinous system of slavery.
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PO1 Joseph Glennon
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Congress determined in the 1950s that the Confederate veterans were, in fact, American veterans. These bases and monuments *are* named for American veterans.

My suggestions? Cancel the cancel culture.

The vast majority, overwhelming majority, fought against the Union because of the Union's tactics. Scorched Earth was their strategy. They raped, pillaged, plundered and burns, leaving swaths of destruction behind them. Slavery was not the reason that the majority of the Southerners fought - including their generals.

Had the Union left the fighting and destruction on the battlefields, they would have had a far easier win. The bases whose names are going to be changed are all in the South - where those generals were fighting for the very lives and livelihoods of the people who lived there (or were killed there by the Union).

History is not black and white. If learning history offends you, then perhaps you won't make the same mistakes people made in the past, nor order your charges to do so.
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SGT Wayne Grindstaff
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Just the Woke Govt. slapping the ancestors of Confederate soldiers. My 2nd great grandfather fought for the Union in the CW and just like me I'm sure he would give credit to those that he fought if they were worthy.
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MSG Company First Sergeant
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Name them after their largest tenant unit or organization. Leave naming them after people out of it. Less chance of controversy.
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SFC Jeff Reed
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After they are done eliminating history I'm we should eliminate any help/handup programs and when they complain say, "what the heck, you haven't got any problems!"
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SSG Emilio Hernandez
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Why not rename them from metal of honor recep recipients
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SSG Retired
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Leave them as they are
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SPC Tim Phillips
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It going to cost millions of unnecessary dollars to change all those names. People just need to get over it.
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CPL Anthony Chase
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Just another Democrat inspired boondoggle, can you imagine the upgrades to equipment our troops could have had for the many, many millions wasted to change historic goodwill to the south? Over a hundred fifty years worth tossed in the name of wokeness. History cannot be changed regardless of this incompetent and blatantly un-American order. What’s next? will they ban the American flag? It would certainly
Fit with the pentagons rush to destroy our fighting forces in the name of stupidity.
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