RE: Renaming US Army bases.
June 15, 2020 at 1:09 am
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2020 at 1:12 am by Anomalocaris.)
(June 14, 2020 at 8:22 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Fort Bonespurs (apologies to arewethereyet. I didn't read the first page).
Can you imagine a US aircraft carrier named after Trump?
The crew can claim hundreds of victories without leaving port.
A US aircraft carrier named trump should be manned by a crew that is all infected by Covid-19.
(June 14, 2020 at 6:00 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There are 69 living medal of honor recipients. We could start there.
Fort 69.
(June 14, 2020 at 5:40 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(June 14, 2020 at 5:10 pm)brewer Wrote: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ......
I've never know the military to be very imaginative.
There’s actually precedent for just using numbers.
Until the reign of Augustus, Roman legions were numbered, not named (with the exception of ‘Gemini’, which meant that particular legion was twinned). Permanent camps for the legions were simply called after the legion, such as ‘the fort of the 3rd legion’, although sometimes the name of the town was added for clarity (marching camps weren’t named at all).
So, US forts could simply be named for the units they are most associated with.
Boru
Fort 127th sanitation company.
