Roland Bragg was a 21-year-old paratrooper from Maine when he found himself pinned down by artillery fire near the end of World War II, out of ammunition as the Germans closed in. He hunkered down ...

Less than two years after Fort Bragg officially became Fort Liberty, the North Carolina Army base’s name is changing back to Fort Bragg. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Army ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday directed the U.S. Army to change the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, but with a twist. Hegseth signed a memo aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 before ...

The Army paratrooper after whom Fort Liberty will regain the name Bragg was born June 11, 1923, in Sabbattus, Maine, to Calvin and Ella Stevens Bragg. Little is immediately known about Silver Star ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to rename Fort Bragg appears to be his latest effort to roll back Biden-administration diversity policies for the military. On Monday, a memo from Hegseth ...

On Monday, the Pentagon announced that it would be restoring the name Fort Bragg to the North Carolina Army base near Fayetteville. In 2023, the base was renamed Fort Liberty so that it no longer ...

The original Fort Bragg was named after Confederate General ... while deployed with the Cary-based 805th Military Police Company. At the June 2022 renaming ceremony, Elliott told media that ...

In an Oct. 2024 campaign event in Fayetteville, N.C., Mr. Trump had pledged to change the name of Fort Bragg back from Fort Liberty. On Mr. Hegseth’s first day at the Pentagon, he referred to ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Is it an honor or a cynical end run? When it comes to the former — and possibly future — Fort Bragg, that’s in the eye of the beholder. North Carolina state Rep.

Fort Liberty is Fort Bragg again, as ordered by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in a memo Monday. But instead of being named for Gen. Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general and slaveowner, ...