Pentagon begins 'full implementation'
of renaming Confederate-named bases
Washington Examiner,
by
Mike Brest
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/7/2023 11:12:44 AM
The Department of Defense has begun implementing the name commission's recommendation to rid the department of its names tied to the Confederacy.
Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment William LaPlante directed all DOD organizations to begin "full implementation"(Snip)The panel recommendations include new names for nine Army bases that currently commemorate Confederate officers, including Fort Bragg in North Carolina to Fort Liberty; Fort Benning and Fort Gordon in Georgia to Fort Moore and Fort Eisenhower; Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Lee, and Fort Pickett in Virginia to Fort Walker, Fort Gregg-Adams, and Fort Barfoot; Fort Hood in Texas to Fort Cavazos, Fort Polk in Louisiana to Fort Johnson; and Fort Rucker
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 1/7/2023 11:23:59 AM (No. 1373019)
In another 20 years we can rename them again to Fort Rachel Levine, Fort Buttigieg, and Fort Jean-Pierre.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
FunOne 1/7/2023 11:24:35 AM (No. 1373021)
I doubt that there is an officer in US military service today that is worthy of shining the boots of Robert E Lee and many other Confederates—all of them loyal to their states rather than to a strong, central federal government. This wokeism stuff should be replaced with honest history of the tactics of so many of these gentlemen.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 1/7/2023 11:26:52 AM (No. 1373024)
Uh, why don't you defend the country rather than defending Marxism? POS.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/7/2023 11:27:23 AM (No. 1373025)
It isn't possible - - for me to despise anyone more than I despise these toady bureaucrats.
No - - it really isn't.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HerbVA 1/7/2023 11:29:05 AM (No. 1373028)
Can’t win a f#$king war, but can chest pound their wokeness. Dishonoring dead Confederate heroes makes them really manly, about the only thing in their jobs that does.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
VietVet68 1/7/2023 11:50:20 AM (No. 1373049)
It's good to see Biden's military is taking care of the really important things. Like the communists the democrat party, but I repeat myself, are focused on erasing any history the disagree with. More meaningless gestures to appease the woke idiots.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Kate318 1/7/2023 11:52:23 AM (No. 1373052)
Doesn’t matter to me. I will still call them by their real names.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 1/7/2023 12:04:30 PM (No. 1373074)
So, if the place I was born (Fort Bragg) no longer exists, does that mean I no longer exist?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
paral04 1/7/2023 12:19:21 PM (No. 1373094)
Don't they have anything better to do? How about training our troops?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Pearson365 1/7/2023 12:21:15 PM (No. 1373097)
Shouldn’t Biden be spending the $65 to $90 million in renaming expenses on illegal aliens? The massive stream of illegals will require food stamps. housing allowances, clothing, maternity ward services, psychiatric counseling, incredibly expensive medical care and translators/textbooks for public schools. Plus free legal services when they are convicted (but not deported) for crimes against Americans, Things that the money for this anti-white renaming exercise could be funding with our money.
So instead of removing the names of long forgotten Civil War generals when schools no longer teach American history, use this money to cover a portion of the expenses for another of Biden’s destructive policies..
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
FLCracker 1/7/2023 12:23:07 PM (No. 1373099)
However, folks at Fort Cavazos have noticed that the abbreviated nickname for the place would be "Fort Cav."
Fort Cav for the home of the armored cavalry. A silver lining.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 1/7/2023 12:23:54 PM (No. 1373101)
Fort Polk will always be Fort Polk like Fort Bragg will always be Fort Bragg. If Donald Trump is ever to be President again, he should do what Joe Biden did on his first day change everything back including the names of military bases among other things the creepy pervert Biden did. Fire Milley and Austin first to get even. FJB
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Phantomll 1/7/2023 12:30:52 PM (No. 1373109)
Idiotic waste of time and money!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
volksford 1/7/2023 12:38:53 PM (No. 1373116)
I see the pentagon is still fighting the civil war at the behest of the Marxists . These woke jackasses are hell bent on erasing our white European history in America.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/7/2023 12:52:47 PM (No. 1373130)
And this achieves exactly what?
Another srupid move by the feckless Pentagon...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/7/2023 12:58:19 PM (No. 1373135)
Yes, #’s 7 and 12! Just like true fans still refer to the football team in DC as the Redskins.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 1/7/2023 1:48:43 PM (No. 1373164)
When we were a colony of Britain in the 1640s, there was a civil war between parliament and the royals. King Charles 1 was executed for treason. The leader of parliament and new ruler of Britain was Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector. After his death the monarchy was restored and Cromwell's remains were desecrated. However, now when you visit the Houses of Parliament and nearby street corners you can see statues of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and right in front of the building a statue of Oliver Cromwell. Unlike American left-wing Democrats, the British have no intention of erasing historical people from their history. An enemy like Adolf Hitler will never be honored, but Napoleon enjoys grudging respect. The British are quite sensible about things like this. Democrats simply have a blind hatred of traditional Americana.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
chillijilli 1/7/2023 2:03:41 PM (No. 1373172)
So do I have this right? Everyone and everything should be renamed (or dismissed ) with 1 rub from the governing elite's Woke Eraser. Anyone who asks the wrong questions can be poofed away. And the sycophantic media will assist by reporting ONLY news that fits with the radical liberal agenda. How will the public know about things they don't know about.
That's what they will have achieved, #15. And sadly,we're almost there.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Tanker76 1/7/2023 2:25:28 PM (No. 1373183)
Pretty much lived at most of those bases as an Army Brat and during my own career - they will always retain their rightful names for me and mine and when I converse with others.
Let's Go Brandon !!!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chumley 1/7/2023 2:54:02 PM (No. 1373199)
I am ashamed of my service and the decades I served it. I guess I always knew their talk of honor and integrity was just hot air. There was plenty of evidence of it all throughout my career. Now I have proof.
There would have been more honor collecting loans for the mob.
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Everyone please join me in singing a rousing "Dixie."
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In some of these cases I can agree. Pickett, Hood ,AP Hill and Bragg were terrible generals and did more to hurt their causes than help. I never understood why they were so honored in the first place over people like Longstreet, Chamberlain and
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- hit send by mistake
- and Buford. On the other hand Mary Walker never even served in the military and her Medal of Honor was rescinded over a hundred years ago along with hundreds of others who were deemed not worthy of the medal- to include Buffalo Bill. It was only reinstated by the pandering Jimmy Carter based solely on the fact that she was a woman. She doesn’t deserve to have a military base named in her honor.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
rytwng 1/7/2023 3:29:21 PM (No. 1373227)
And the Washington football team will always be the REDSKINS.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Krause 1/7/2023 3:37:07 PM (No. 1373230)
Busy work costing 62 mil.
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Next budget rename to their real names. For $60 million chump change and will PO libs.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Scribelus 1/7/2023 6:33:07 PM (No. 1373316)
And don’t forget to rename the woke Pentagon “Fort Biden”.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/7/2023 8:54:14 PM (No. 1373372)
Before long they will probably be announcing the names of new aircraft carriers will be the USS Joe Biden and the USS Nancy Pelosi.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/7/2023 11:22:01 PM (No. 1373429)
Fort Floyd and Fort Obama will no doubt be on the new list.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/7/2023 11:24:10 PM (No. 1373430)
#13, your comment applies to the entire Biden Administration. FJB
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Talk2 1/8/2023 10:30:51 AM (No. 1373639)
When I served top generals needed something to be "famous" for and so generally chose to remake the uniform. It wasn't harmless for the troops who had to shell out for the new uniforms and many of us saw hundreds of dollars go down the drain as the next COS added his contribution to the fiasco. Now these idiots have gone from changing clothing to trying to change history. It's no wonder so many would be recruits have said thanks but no thanks to wokeism and communism being practiced in the military today.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Italiano 1/8/2023 10:34:17 AM (No. 1373642)
The next war is going to be serious wakeup call. Glad my sons are out and won't be part of the bloodbath.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 1/8/2023 3:54:54 PM (No. 1373810)
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
-George Orwell
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 1/8/2023 9:59:49 PM (No. 1373925)
What a disgrace! Just because some loud mouth liberals. They better be ready for the next fight - but who cares all borders are open with Joe in the WH.
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