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Anti-racist agitation in the early 2020s led to calls for changing bases to remove the names of Confederate figures who fought against the Union during the American Civil War. [6] The Naming Commission was created by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, [7] and renaming began in December 2022. [8]
Following the June 2020 nationwide protests over the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, the federal government began rethinking its traditional connection to Confederate Army symbols, including base names. President Donald Trump strongly opposed renaming the bases. [7] Partially due to provisions allowing Confederate-named bases to be ...
Giving new titles to nine Army bases named after Confederate generals will cost a little more than $21 million, according to estimates from the commission in charge of overseeing the process. The ...
Named after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, Fort Bragg, outside Fayetteville, N.C., is one of the U.S. bases under consideration for a name change. Logan Mock-Bunting/Getty ImagesFor decades, nine ...
On November 18, 2020, Speaker Nancy Pelosi named the House Democratic members of the conference committee for the NDAA and in doing so stated that "this summer, the House and Senate on a bipartisan basis passed NDAAs with provisions to begin the process of changing the names of military bases and infrastructure named after individuals who ...
The Army secretary is open to changing the names of 10 Army bases that were named for Confederate leaders.
GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Military installations of the United States Army. Including: current/former United States Army bases and stations, and the buildings/structures used at their military installations; and related civilian research/support and defense contractor facilities.
Oakland Army Base. Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Mather Air Force Base. McClellan Air Force Base. Presidio of San Francisco. Sacramento Army Depot. San Carlos War Dog Training Center. Colorado. Fitzsimons Army Medical Center.