Advertisement
Advertisement
Fort Bragg
noun
- a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in S central North Carolina NW of Fayetteville.
Example Sentences
Fort Bragg, which was named for a Confederate general until the military changed it to Fort Liberty, will again bear its original name – but this time attributed to a far less controversial soldier from World War Two.
In 2023, during Joe Biden's presidency, the Department of Defense renamed nine US military bases, including Fort Bragg.
Meanwhile, renaming Fort Bragg is the latest in an ongoing debate over the legacy of the Confederacy – the coalition of southern states that seceded from the US over the issue of slavery and triggered the Civil War.
"But I hate that so many people who have had positive experiences at Fort Bragg, who have had children born there, weddings there, that they will no longer have that tether of Fort Bragg in the name."
So this week, our boy Pete Hegseth signed a memo renaming North Carolina’s Fort Liberty—which is what Fort Bragg had been renamed in 2023—back to Fort Bragg.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse