A Georgia military base will now officially be named for a Nebraska war hero.Gov. Jim Pillen shared Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth memorandum that ordered th
The Trump administration is changing the name for Fort Moore back to Fort Benning -- but it appears they are renaming it after a different Benning. In a statement from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday,
The base’s name was changed to Fort Moore in 2023 as part of a bipartisan effort to eliminate military honors bestowed on Confederate officers.
The family of a Vietnam War hero who lived in Alabama expressed sadness and anger that his and his wife’s names are being stripped from an Army base in Georgia. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that Fort Moore,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum today directing Fort Moore, Georgia, to be renamed Fort Benning.
A storied Army post originally named after Confederate Gen. Henry L. Benning, then renamed Fort Moore as part of the Biden administration’s purge of military base names that honored rebel leaders, will now revert to its original moniker.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reinstated the name “Fort Benning” on Monday for one of the nation’s largest military bases — the second such reversal he’s ordered and the first that requires actually removing the name of a U.S. service member.
In 2022, a federal commission estimated that changing the names of nine military installations would cost taxpayers $21 million.
Trump pushes through another name change as Fort Moore becomes Fort Benning again - The Naming Commission estimated it would cost $4.9 million to rename Fort Benning as Fort Moore