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Fort Liberty name changed back to Fort Bragg

The Associated Press on MSN · 16h

Fort Bragg Has Its Old Name Back, This Time With a Yankee Twist

North Carolina state Rep. John Blust, a Greensboro Republican who served as an enlisted soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division at the installation in the 1970s, said he was “tickled pink” about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's action Monday to restore the name Bragg to what is currently Fort Liberty.

Raleigh News & Observer · 20h

Fort Liberty will be Fort Bragg again. But there’s a twist to the controversial name

Bragg is back,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said after signing a memorandum on the name change Monday night.

The Washington Post · 21h

What is Fort Bragg? Hegseth restores Army base name from Fort Liberty.

The base was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 to disassociate from Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg. It’s now named after Roland L. Bragg, a World War II hero.

13hon MSN

Hegseth renames North Carolina military base Fort Roland L. Bragg and signals more change coming

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base in North ...

In reinstating the name of Fort Bragg, the Army hopes to skirt a ban on Confederate namesakes

The base, known as Fort Liberty since 2023, originally was named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg. The Army says it now ...

15h

WWII hero from Maine is the new namesake of Fort Bragg

World War II Pfc. Roland L. Bragg was born in Sabattus lived in Maine until his 1999 death. He replaces the fort's original ...

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