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The Secretary of Defense Pet Hegsith Brig is bringing back to Fort Liberty, the largest army bases, which replaced a Confederate General in 2023.
But in a memorandum signed on Monday, Hegsit instructed the army to rename North Carolina’s military installation in honor of a different Brig: PFC. Roland L. Brig, a former soldier of World War II, who was awarded the silver star and purple heart for extraordinary bravery during the Blood Battle. Description From the Pentagon Press Secretary John Elot.
“This change indicates the inheritance of installing people who have shown extraordinary services and sacrifices for the nation,” said Eleight.
Before he renamed Fort Liberty in 2023, the fort was named after Confederate General Brexten Brig, who criticized his fighter personality and poor field performance during the civil war. A name commission was set up to study the bases of renaming by Congress Noteded brigg “Is considered one of the worst civil war generals”, and “before the war before the US military and peers and subordinates were widely disliked within the Confederate army.”
The fort was included in nine bases that the Congress Commission had proposed to change the name during President Joe Biden. In the last months of Donald Trump’s first term, removal of confidence manners from US military bases became a controversial political issue. While Trump vetoed the 2021 National Defense Power Act, which included the name commission, the Congress voted in favor of submission of its veto with heavy bilateral support.
Defense Department started Implementing the Naming Commission Recommendations in 2023. Congress approval will be needed to convert the bases into their former confidential names.
Former National Guard’s military and former long -long Fox News host Hegsit has strongly opposed removal of the names of the Confederate Generals from US military bases, and efforts to rename it “Shame,” in various media exhibitions. The garbage has been declared “and” Craft “, CNN had previously reported. It has also suggested that they should be replaced, especially the fort. Brig
While talking on a military installation, he loudly said, “We should change it anyway.” Promoting his book on a podcast. We should return it. We should change it back. We should change it back, because inheritance makes a difference. My uncle served in Brigg. I served in Brigg. It breaks the link of the breed.
Monday’s memo has instructed the military secretary to carry out the “applied rules and regulations” hegsit decision and under -up to acquire and maintain the timeline and resources needed to implement the name change. Provide Secretary Defense.
CNN’s Kanta Air and Andrew Kacinski participated in the report.
