{"id":129544,"date":"2025-06-18T15:58:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/06\/18\/hegseth-says-army-base-renamings-will-move-ahead-despite-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:28:09","slug":"hegseth-says-army-base-renamings-will-move-ahead-despite-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/18\/hegseth-says-army-base-renamings-will-move-ahead-despite-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth says Army base renamings will move ahead, despite concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/12\/hegseth-wont-rule-out-military-actions-against-greenland-panama\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/12\/hegseth-wont-rule-out-military-actions-against-greenland-panama\/\">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a> said military officials are looking for ways to honor the individuals whose names are being removed from Army bases <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/10\/trump-orders-return-to-old-confederate-linked-names-for-7-army-sites\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/10\/trump-orders-return-to-old-confederate-linked-names-for-7-army-sites\/\">as they return to their old designations<\/a>, but rejected the idea of slowing or stopping the renaming process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe orders will soon be going to those bases to change back to the original names that never should have been changed,\u201d he told members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/hearings\/to-receive-testimony-on-the-department-of-defense-budget-request-for-fiscal-year-2026-and-the-future-years-defense-program\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/hearings\/to-receive-testimony-on-the-department-of-defense-budget-request-for-fiscal-year-2026-and-the-future-years-defense-program\">Senate Armed Services Committee<\/a> on Wednesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cVeterans and servicemembers across the country who have deployed from Fort Bragg or Fort Benning or Fort Hood or Fort Pickett, there\u2019s a legacy. There\u2019s a connection to those bases and to those places, to what they trained for there and what they did when they came home. That matters to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/10\/trumps-military-deployments-to-la-raise-legal-political-concerns\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/10\/trumps-military-deployments-to-la-raise-legal-political-concerns\/\">President Donald Trump<\/a> announced plans to revert the designations of seven Army installations previously named for Confederate soldiers. He previously ordered the renaming of North Carolina\u2019s Fort Liberty to its old name, Fort Bragg, in February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the presidential announcement last week, several of the changed base names were mentioned during the Army\u2019s 250th anniversary parade in Washington, D.C. last weekend, because renaming ceremonies have not yet taken place.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/10\/trump-orders-return-to-old-confederate-linked-names-for-7-army-sites\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fortlee.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Trump orders return to old, Confederate-linked names for 7 Army sites<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Service officials said the reverted base names will now have links to Army heroes instead of Confederate leaders. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Service officials have emphasized that the reverted names will no longer commemorate their original Confederate namesakes, but instead other Army alumni with similar names. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, Fort Hood in Texas, originally named for Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood, will now instead honor Distinguished Service Cross recipient Col. Robert B. Hood, who served during World War I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The moves undo decisions by Congress and President Joe Biden\u2019s administration to remove any connection to the Confederacy from current military bases. Lawmakers approved base name changes as part of the annual defense authorization bill process, noting the divisive nature of the association with the Confederacy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Trump \u2014 and Hegseth on Wednesday \u2014 have argued that the names are sacred to troops and their families, and returning to the better-known names will boost military morale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats on the panel rejected that argument. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t understand what the motivation is to rename bases for people who took arms against their country on behalf of slavery,\u201d said Sen. Angus King, I-Maine. \u201cWhat possible motivation can there be for this?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several lawmakers suggested the move was an insult to the individuals for whom the bases were renamed, a group that includes Medal of Honor recipients and military trail blazers. 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