What suggestions do you have for renaming DoD installations honoring Confederate officers?

I think it's plain stupid to rename the installations. They're just trying to erase history. I am not a racist or anything like that so don't go down that road. I have an ancestor who fought on the Union side. I'm a born and bred Connecticut Yankee.

Change is change we will always call those bases by there latter name it doesn’t matter

I have lived in Communist Hungary and the game was erase history Stalin was erasing Lenin, Khruschev was erasing Stalin... rewriting history with statues and history books.... we should be ashamed of ourselves for following the communist game book... my father came to this country to escape all that... I became an Airborne Ranger Infantry CPT to protect our democracy.... shame on the politicians and shame on the media and shame on the teachers... so the short answer is leave things alone...

As for me I am thinking our nation has nothing but a bunch of idiots running things. Leave the fort’s names as they are because changing them is not going to change history and will serve no purpose.

Welcome to the Idiocracy! Most of those gentlemen were also heroes of the Mexican War. Back then your citizenship was primarily focused locally and your identity so when a “foreign power “ ie the federal government was trying to oppress the folks in your community the patriotic thing was to protect your homeland. It turned out better for history and our nation that we remained united and that brought about a change in how we perceived ourselves as Americans and not just Ohioans or Virginians. , etc,

Rename all the Forts, ships, and installations with Confederation related names. Name them for winners like Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan. We need to reject white supremacy once and for all.

It DOES matter if we agree or not, despite it being directed. Keep in mind that a future name change back to what they are now could also be directed by a future administration.

My question is this: why are we (apparently the American public) so concerned about the naming of military installations all of a sudden? What is the purpose of this directed renaming? What will it actually accomplish? Because simply renaming (for example) Fort Lee, to something else, and ONLY doing that (and not changing anything else regarding it's history, other than referring to it as "formerly known as Ft. Lee") would accomplish.....what exactly? How would it improve anyone's life materially? Where does this "renaming" of things end? Are we to rename every street in the country that has a name that can be traced back to something "dark" in American history? What happened, happened. Nothing that happened 200 years ago directly affects any of us now. The names of things has no material affect on anyone. I'm not saying that maybe it doesn't "offend" some people, but so what? Are people so thin-skinned that they cannot tolerate being "offended"? (Spoiler alert: if you are, stay away from me, as I will likely offend you at some point by something I say or do, perhaps even intentionally, and I also won't give two !@#%$).

I served for 30 years. Those bases had those names that entire time. They will continue to have those names, in my mind, for the rest of my life. Not because I think those names are necessarily "appropriate", but rather, because that's what I know them as. I see no justifiable reason to spend (my) taxpayer dollars to rename them. Personally I don't really care what they are named; I see no reason to be upset, or offended, or whatever, regardless of what they are named, or whether I agree or disagree with the names given. I don't live in the past. I try to understand the past so it's lessons can guide me in the future.

Now, for some enlightenment on this "naming of military bases" debacle, go read this report and educate yourself on the history of it: https://history.army.mil/faq/naming-of-us-army-posts.htm#Section02

Oh, too much reading for you and you want the TL:DR version? Well then, for a good summary from Task & Purpose, read here: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-confederate-post-study/

Wait, did Bragg and Benning get renamed? I don’t read about this stuff as closely as I used to. Which bases actually got renamed?

Ulysses S. Grant

I despise that the names of these Forts have been changed. Not because of the change of the names, but because of the motivation of those that pushed for the change. The left, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren (A truly stellar individual to be sure) pushed for this move that would NEVER have been considered otherwise, in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder. It was done to pander to the Social Justice Warriors at the cost of REAL Warriors.
The Millions upon millions of dollars that have and will be spent to rename Fort Bragg, demanded by people that do not even know, and had never heard of who Braxton Bragg was, simply because they want to force upon the rest of us their vision of the world. Those funds should be used to repair and upgrade living quarters inhabited by our troops and their families. BUT NO.... It is more important to spend installation funds to rename a base than to make that base livable for the troops. Call it what you want, justify it how you may, but it was from it's inception a flawed, politically motivated, and wasteful attempt by the left to use yet more public funds to buy votes.