Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth renamed Fort Moore to Fort Benning. The base is spread out in over 182,000 acres near Columbus, Georgia. WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary on ...

Current law does not let him do that — the military is no longer allowed to name bases after Confederate generals — so Mr. Hegseth has found other military troops with the same last names.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday restored the original name of a Georgia military installation, although Fort Benning now honors another combat hero instead of a Confederate general.

The Pentagon will change the name of the Georgia military base Fort Moore back to Fort Benning, formerly named after a Confederate general, though this time it will honor a different man.

For more than a century, Fort Benning's name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the name of the Army base in Georgia two years ago, but now the Trump ...

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The changes, according to the Pentagon, honor American soldiers who fought bravely in World War I and II, not the Confederate generals for whom the military installations were originally named.

Hegseth renamed the Georgia base in honor of Cpl. Fred G. Benning, a World War I veteran awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, and not the Confederate general for whom it was originally named, ...

Benning died in 1974. The U.S. Army base was previously named after Lt. Gen. Henry Benning, a Confederate general, before the congressional Naming Commission renamed it Fort Moore in 2022 to honor ...