Fort Bragg, North Carolina, is returned to its former name without the Confederate namesake, as the Pentagon honored WWII Pvt. Roland Bragg of Maine.
The renaming ceremony comes nearly two years after the Department of Defense officially changed Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty.
Last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum directing that Fort Liberty, North Carolina, be renamed as ...
By Chris Cameron Reporting from Fort Bragg, N.C. The sprawling Army base in North Carolina had long been named for Braxton Bragg, an incompetent Confederate general who owned enslaved people.
After spending the last 21 months as Fort Liberty, the 160,000-acre military installation in Cumberland County, North Carolina, which is home to 10% of the entire United States Army, is now Fort Bragg ...
The short-lived existence of Fort Liberty came to an end Friday. Fort Bragg is officially known as Fort Bragg again.
Bragg, who served with the 17th Airborne Division, received the Silver Star and a Purple Heart for exceptional courage during ...
On March 7, Fort Liberty, North Carolina, officially reclaimed its historic name as Fort Bragg in a ceremony honoring World ...
The renaming ceremony comes nearly two years after the Department of Defense officially changed Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty.
“As the president has said, and I’ve said as well, we’re not done there," Hegseth said Tuesday when asked about the decision to revert the base name from Fort Liberty back to Fort ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base in North Carolina back to Fort Bragg and said Tuesday that ...