For more than a century, the Army post bore the name of Henry Benning, a Confederate brigadier general and ardent advocate of ...

Meanwhile, Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., in a post on X immediately cheered Hegseth’s move on Fort Bragg. “Can we do Benning, please,” he wrote. For the Moore family, seeing their parents ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had referred to Fort Benning and Fort Bragg by their original, Confederate-inspired names.

On his first day in the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth referred to Georgia's Fort Moore by its original name, Fort ...

Seidule said he was "surprised" that Hegseth "did not stick with the name the local community united around," including ... Hegseth referred to Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, a Georgia base renamed ...

Fort Bragg is one of nine major Army bases that initially bore the names of Confederate leaders. Their names were changed in ...

UPDATE 1/31/25 1:32 p.m.: We’re learning new details about a double shooting near Fort Benning Road on Friday afternoon. The scene started at Eagle Trace Apartments. Two people shot were then ...

The name change back to Bragg could also be seen as a slap against some of the highly decorated service members whose names ...