Hegseth Is Giving Fort Bragg Its Name Back… With An Upgrade (Video)

Without asking the troops how they felt about it, Joe Biden threw the activists in his party a bone by scrubbing the names of some ‘problematic’ military bases.

A simplistic reading of history reduces the question to Confederacy and White Supremacy. While we can’t ignore that part of history, we can’t erase the implications of how a fractured nation looked for ways to stitch itself back together again — as Lincoln would phrase it ‘with malice for none’.

But Joe Biden embraced a 1619 Project ahistorical reading of history, maximizing American culpability, negating anything that would elevate and ennoble it. The propaganda, energized by the George Floyd riots and the pulling down of Confederate statues motivated him to change the long-established name of some American bases.

The name and tradition of Fort Bragg has taken on a life and identity of its own, quite apart from the man whose name it originally bore. It has stories of its own, and a culture of its own.

An arbitrary rebrand, late in the game, with words like ‘Liberty’ or ‘Freedom’ ignores the fact that tradition and history is part of the beating heart of military tradition.

Pete Hegseth has rejected the 1619 Project worldview, and with it, the negative view of history and tradition. As a result, Fort Bragg is getting its name back… more or less.

It’s once again named Fort Bragg.

No, not THAT Bragg. Another guy.

While flying aboard a C-17 from Joint Base Andrews to Stuttgart on February 10, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum renaming Fort Liberty in North Carolina to Fort Roland L. Bragg. The new name pays tribute to Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, a World War II hero who earned the Silver Star and Purple Heart for his exceptional courage during the Battle of the Bulge. This change underscores the installation’s legacy of recognizing those who have demonstrated extraordinary service and sacrifice for the nation. — Defense

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