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

Well said.

The asleep at the wheel oldsters should get a grip- Its you who want to erase history, banning CRT so we don't hear about or study 4 centuries of systemic racism and discrimination- slavery, Jim Crow, Wounded Knee, Trail of Tears, Race riots against China Town, concentration camps for Japanese Americans, discrimination against minorities in housing, financing, education and employment- so, tell me Mikey, why are y'all so danged fired-up about commemorating Confederates that fought a war to preserve the institution of slavery, but you ar hell-bent to talk about the other history? It isn't anti-american- because all of it happened to Americans or people in America.

SFC Jeff Duncan - Jeff, that is a false interpretation of the history. Although many individual Confederates may not have owned slaves, they were fighting to preserve the institution of slavery. It is repeatedly mentioned in every document establishing the Confederacy. Regardless, it does not change the fact that our black servicemen and servicewomen should have to serve at bases named after slavers and traitors.

So every male in the South whether they fought or not was a slaver and a traitor? I can give you a perspective from my family, they were against succession and chose to not fight until Union troops came unto their property raping and pillaging and murdering and were forced to fight for their land and life. Then on my fathers side which was Native American that suffered 100x more persecution then any slave you don’t hear any of this wokeness coming from them because as my Grandfather taught me that there are things that happen in time and time moves always forward and if you choose to destroy the past offensives then you never existed! He was a old man still living on a reservation with his only schooling being from the Indian school but he was a lot wiser then a lot of fools today. My father being Native American chose to serve the country that persecuted his ancestors and I never heard a word of victimhood in the home I was raised in,I then chose to serve my country as well having listened to the history of my ancestors and the atrocities that were committed against them but I have no malice in my heart nor feel I should get any special treatment. So I don’t understand the knee jerk to change history or want to destroy our history. If slavery is to be the motive opporoindi then the coliseum in Rome should be destroyed and the pyramids in Egypt should be destroyed hell destroy the world because there is not a race on the face of this earth who have not been enslaved. So if we’re going to condemn anything to do with slavery then let’s administer it across the board and we should be attacking China this very day as there are over 2 million slaves in that country this very day.

"What about's" is not an answer to the issue: the names of the bases should be changed. Those Confederates names were chosen, like the statutes and school names, to suppress black voters, school attendance, and participation in government. It is long past time to rename those posts. By the way, we've renamed posts in the past:
- Camp Mackall, NC (a subsidiary of Bragg) was originally Camp Hoffman, but renamed after an airborne trooper who was killed from wounds in Operation Torch;
- Fort Belvior, VA, was originally Camp Humphries;
- Camp Pendleton, VA was originally named after the governors of VirginiaCamp Trinkle (1922-1926), then Camp Byrd (1926-1930, then Camp Pollard (1930-1934), then Camp Peery (1934-1938), then Camp Price (1938-1942), and later named after Lee's chief of artillery;
- Fort Rucker was originally the Ozark Triangular Division Camp;
- Camp Forrest, TN (one of the largest WWII bases, and named after Nathan Bedford Forrest) became Arnold Air Force Base
Not to mention the many deactivated forts and posts that have gone by the wayside over the years.

The post names will change, and become something that all Americans can be proud of and places where they can serve without reminders of oppression.

my Rebuttal was not what about’s, it was speaking to the fact that if you lived in the South during the Civil war you were considered a slaver and a traitor. Slavery was a minor issue in the causation of the Civil war and if you’d read Lincoln’s papers you’d realize that. Yes slaves were mentioned in the documents of succession but once again it was not the key subject. The whole thing started with one party controlling most of the power and trying to impose taxes on Southern States and not on Northern States. I say one more time look at what is going on this very day in our Federal Government and it’s almost identical. The point I was making about slavery throughout the world and time is this. Slavery should have never been used throughout time but it happened all over the world and to just about every race but if you’re going to change history for one group of individuals then you better be willing to change it for others. If this was truly about slavery there could be a honest discussion but this is political pontificating by the Democratic Party. If this country was so serious about slavery then why are we not calling out China for its modern day slavery, why are the products made by slave labor still allowed to be imported into this great nation. Stop with the wokeness and the oh woes me. We have enough trouble in the present lt alone bringing up the past from hundreds of years ago. There were a lot of things that could have been done better when this nation formed but these things happened, just like my mother’s family in North Carolina. Their county voted against succession but it didn’t matter during and after the war. They were put off their land because they were white and lived in the South,you don’t here about how horribly treated were the common man, woman and child by the Union troops. The rape and pillage that was suffered by Southern Blacks and Whites. There is no convenient truth only the real truth. These bases should be let alone and let’s worry about the real issues going on in this country!!

The name was taken from the former plantation, that is why some want to change the name.

The name was taken from the mansion.

Fort Belvior is not on the list, but is up for reconsideration. It was originally named Camp Humphreys, after Union General Andrew Humphreys, who was chief engineer for McClellan, and renamed in the 1930s after the plantation. Since it's now an intelligence center, there is thought that it might be used to appropriately honor an intelligence Soldier. Examples include Medal of Honor troops CPT Rocky Versace (SF intel advisor to the SVN forces), MSG Roy Benavidez (SF working intel with MACV SOG), 1LT George Sisler (MI officer with MACV-SOG), and CSM Bennie Adkins (SF intel sergeant), all of whom would be deserving.

CPT John Rist - As was Arlington the home of Robert E. Lee, so let's add it to the list!

Another year has passed and WOKENESS is just getting worse.
You know the Military is going in the wrong direction when Drag Queens are on the "I want you" posters.