The move is stirring up conversation in and outside military circles. Skeptics wonder if the true intention is to undermine ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth restored the names of Fort Benning and Fort Bragg, which were originally named for Confederate ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been criticized for attempting to rename military bases to honor Confederate officers, with Rep. Don Bacon calling his approach “stupid as hell”.

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GOP Rep. Don Bacon, who helped lead the effort to change military base names, voted for a draft law defunding efforts to reverse the changes.

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel, disputed Hegseth’s claim that veterans like her who were deployed from those bases have asked for the names to ...

Democratic senators on Wednesday repeatedly slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his decision to restore the names of nine military bases originally named after Confederate leaders, with ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has stripped the name of a U.S. Navy veteran and gay rights activist from a ship and moved to return the last names of Confederate generals to U.S. Army bases.

Despite the presidential announcement last week, several of the changed base names were mentioned during the Army’s 250th anniversary parade in Washington, D.C. last weekend, because renaming ...

The main gate welcome sign for Fort Hood in Texas is shown in July 2013. The base was renamed to Fort Cavazos in 2023. (Tony Gutierrez/AP) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said military officials ...